#wanted

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household. ↗

— Georg Solti

#abundant #after #anything #besides #continue

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#allowing #continue #decide #economics #engineering

The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing. ↗

— Marla Sokoloff

#day #decided #frustrating #frustrating thing #i

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it. ↗

— George Strait

#beginning #everything #hit #hit records #i

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#actress #classes #classical #going #i

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#end #give #others #receiving #through

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do. ↗

— Anna Sui

#become #chinese #designer #had #i

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point. ↗

— Anna Sui

#beyond #business #clothes #concerts #designing

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. ↗

— Andy Summers

#i #i think #instrumental #like #play

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. ↗

— Andy Summers

#classical #classical guitar #college #come #guitar