#wanting

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

#any #because #leaves #more #most

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#also #care #coming #dollars #ever

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment. ↗

— Marion Jones

#dedicated #get #had #i #moment

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#dear #experience #father #profundity #protect

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#feeling #give #gratifying #me #mechanics

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

Music is all about wanting to be better at it. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#better #music #wanting

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#districts #england #large #manufactures #morality

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#being #being content #content #get #getting

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#actually #allows #always #artist #because