#want

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#are #inspirational #motivational #success #thoughts

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#dared #hear #i #i wonder #me

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#also #because #build #contain #live

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#common people #democracy #deserve #get #good

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor. ↗

— Jim McKay

#actor #attractive #chances #cool #feel

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#different #different genres #different types #genres #i

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#bag #choose #exploring #film #first

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#each #i #kevin #other #them

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#commonly #evidently #wanted #welcome #which

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right. ↗

— Pras Michel

#felt #get #hottest #i #make