#wants

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it. ↗

— George MacDonald

#best #does #finds #get #give

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#asks #believed #never #poet #wants

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#capital #every #gets #keeps #letter

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#business #business community #chicago #city #community

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#gave #give #how #measure #money

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#because #contact #crowds #cult thing #days

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs! ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#give #going #i #needs #public

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#box #create #did #done #esteem

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#got #hear #nobody #radio #sad