#desire

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me. ↗

— Orson Pratt

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achieve #beat #creative #creative man #desire

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ever #force #good #motive #motives

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#because #class #danger #deep #deep desire

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good. ↗

— Amber Valletta

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I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused. ↗

— Michael Arad

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My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#crap #desire #make #more #participate

The discipline of desire is the background of character. ↗

— John Locke

#character #desire #discipline

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#desire #express #himself #his #lives

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#baby #beyond #birth #both #bring