Know What You Want Quotes

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. ~ Tom Glavine

Forget logic, he says. Logic doesn't know what you want. ~ Jay Asher

Don't just try to "make it" through the day. Celebrate the day. Say, "This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it" (see Psalm 118:24). Don't dread the day; attack the day. Know what you want to accomplish today and go for it. ~ Joyce Meyer

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique. ~ Jeff Buckley

I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed on a traffic accident. Two months after, King Philippe found in a gutter, deceased - it really is a bad stretch of road. Philippe's heirs and assigns having coincidentally expired, end of the monarchy, reign of M.Danton. ~ Hilary Mantel

basic rule of negotiation is to know what you want, what you need to walk away with in order to be whole. ~ Phil Knight

It's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it. ~ Lil' Wayne

know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. ~ Yann Martel

Words create. Know what you want to create before you speak ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking. ~ Amy Poehler

I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces ... If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it? ... Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful. ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

First, clarify what you really want. You've got a head start if you've already Started with Heart. If you know what you want for yourself, for others, and for the relationship, then you're in position to break out of the Fool's Choice. "What I want is for my husband to be more reliable. I'm tired of being let down by him when he makes commitments that I depend on." Second, clarify what you really don't want. This is the key to framing the and question. Think of what you are afraid will happen to you if you back away from your current strategy of trying to win or stay safe. What bad thing will happen ~ Kerry Patterson

If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine. ~ Garrett Camp

Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it. ~ John Allyn

It's not enough to know what you want to do. You have to do it to be what you want to be. ~ Paulo Coelho

If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. ~ Yann Martel

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second. ~ George Horace Lorimer

Here's a little secret. He does care about you, but he cares about you for himself. He's keeping you safe on a shelf. I bet he interferes with any guy who might show you some attention while he goes out with every pair of perky tits that steps in his path. He may even marry you someday because I'm guessing you and your cardigans are his parents' wet dream, the perfect ideal of wifey material, but he will own you, D'Arcy. Trust me on this. I know what I'm talking about. Is that what you want? Do you even know what you want? ~ A.S. Green

You need to understand that what you think you want isn't always what's best for you and others. You need to open your heart to learn what you want before you use this magic, otherwise if you don't really know what you want and you get what you think you want, you're going to end up getting what you don't want." Huh? ~ James R. Doty

You think you know what you want, but once you have it, the hole you thought it would fill is that much bigger. The want is what exists, not the thing we lust after. ~ Hugh Howey

Mikhail, I don't know what you want." She didn't know what she wanted either.
He stood up then, power and grace combined. His shadow reached her before he did. His strength was enormous, but his touch was gentle as he pulled her to her feet. His hands slid up her arms, rested lightly on her shoulders, thumbs stroking the pulse in her neck. His touch sent warmth curling in her abdomen.
She was so small beside him, so fragile and vulnerable. "Do not try to leave me, little one. We need one another." His dark head bent lower, his mouth brushing her eyelids, sending little darts of fire licking along her skin. "You make me remember what living is," he whispered in his mesmerizing voice. His mouth found the corner of hers, and a jolt of electricity sizzled through her body.
Raven reached up to touch the shadowed line of his jaw, to place a hand on the heavy muscles of his chest in an attempt to put space between them. "Listen to me, Mikhail." Her voice was husky. "We both know what loneliness is, what real isolation can do to a person. It's beyond my imagination that I can be this close to you, physically touch you, and not be swamped with unwanted burdens. But we can't do this."
Amusement crept into the dark fire of his eyes, a hint of tenderness. His fingers curled around the nape of her neck. "Oh, I think we can." His black velvet voice was pure seduction, his smile frankly sensual. ~ Christine Feehan

He sank to his knees.
"I don't know how to handle this. I don't know what you want from me. Quoi tu veux," he murmured, over and over, until the whirring noise slowed and his fingers curled deep into the mud.

~Remy ~ Sydney Croft

When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject? ~ Sandra Lamb

Know what you want to do - then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end. ~ Ernestine Schumann-Heink

I just like that you know what you want. It's refreshing and sexy at the same time."
"Well, this will really turn you on," she says in that gritty voice of hers. "I want to eat a big juicy steak for dinner, with a baked potato slathered in butter. I may even lick my fingers like the lady that I am."
I groan. "God, that's so hot. ~ Sidney Halston

Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what you want to do and advocate for it, no one will put any energy into stopping you. ~ Paul Feyerabend

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done. ~ George Allen, Sr.

I don't know what you want," she said, her voice barely a whisper.
"Time," he said softly. "Just time. I don't have a good reason, but I have three days left and I want to spend them with you. ~ Claudia Connor

You must know what you want, to find what you want. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there. ~ William Monahan

Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as long as you know what you want and you're going towards that. Accept it's going to be a different path than you thought in the first place. ~ Emily Meade

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career. ~ Pharoahe Monch

What else? I also believe that if someone comes up behind you on the freeway and flashes their lights to get you to move into the slow lane, they deserve whatever punishment you dole out to them. I promptly slow down and drive at the same speed as the car beside me so that I can punish Speed Racer for his impertinence.
Actually, it's not the impertinence I'm punishing him for, it's that he let other people know what he wanted.
Speed Racer, my friend, never ever let people know what you want. Because if you do, you might as well send them engraved invitations saying, Hi, this is what I want you to prevent me from ever having. ~ Douglas Coupland

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do. ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life. ~ Patch Adams

When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. That is, you are telling them what they are supposed to know, what you want them to understand is true. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

One of the lessons of Vietnam, which we failed to heed in the Iraq war and the Afghanistan surge, is that before you commit U.S. military forces to aid or assist, it is essential to know what you want them to achieve. ~ Kathleen Troia McFarland

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write. ~ Evan Davis

Just prepare well and know what you want to do. Give it your best, but you really don't have a clue what's going to happen. ~ Pema Chodron

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed. ~ William Kamkwamba

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of. ~ Paula Radcliffe

Treat your online affairs as part of your affairs that need to be in order - your bank, your Internet bill - you need to have people who know what you want. ~ Caitlin Doughty

Do you know what you want to do?" "No. Not really." "But you know what you don't want to do?" "Yes," I answered definitely. "Then there's your starting point. ~ Kylie Scott

You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want ... ~ Julia Heywood

If you don't know what you want, the chances that you'll get it are extremely low. ~ Ben Horowitz

The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want.
So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (..)
This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want. ~ John C. Parkin

Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want. ~ Emily Henry

Once you know what you want, even if you can't see it, even if you do not know how you will get it, you have to trust that it is there. ~ Stephen Richards

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have. ~ Rachel Simon

Research shows that our social networks narrow across adulthood, as careers and families become busier and more defined. So - even and especially as we job-hop and move cross-country and change roommates and spend our weekends about town - this is the time to be connecting, not just with the same people having the same conversations about how work is lame or how there are no good men out there, but with those who might see things a little differently. Weak ties are the people who will better your life right now - and again and again in the years to come - if you have the courage to know what you want. ~ Meg Jay

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted ... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this. ~ Vanessa Hudgens

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. ~ Alan W. Watts

If you don't know what you want to fill your life with, there's a good chance you're going to fill it with everything that you don't - ~ Josh James Riebock

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. ~ Jim Rohn

You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be. ~ Will Smith

Making a film, it uses a certain ... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested. ~ Jeff Bridges

I don't know what you want, Haley. Just because you got me off doesn't mean I have to engage in post-fuck chat. So back off. ~ Sydney Croft

The way you feel is the way you feel, and no matter how much you think you should feel some other way, you can't change that. There's some things in this life you can change and some you can't. I'm sure August tells you the same thing. Here's what you do when the time comes to talk to your dad. Here's what I do. I say to my creator, 'I'm about to open my mouth here. And, historically, that's been a dicey thing, as we both know. So some help is in order. So let me know what you want me to say to this person in this situation. Say it through me. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Once you know what you want, you can make the rest happen ~ Aleksandr Voinov

In all these years we've been together," he said, "I don't think I know an important part of you. You keep secrets inside you. You hide. It's as though I've never seen you naked, and I've had to imagine what you look like behind the drapes."

"I'm not consciously hiding anything." After Ruth said that, she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything - the irritations, the fears? How tiresome that would be. What did he mean by secrets?

"I want us to be intimate. I want to know what you want. Not just with us, but from life. What makes you happiest? Are you doing what you want to do? ~ Amy Tan

What is the "it" in "write it down"?
When you don't have an answer to that question, when you don't know what your goals are,
you can use your writing to point you in the right direction. If you don't know what you want,
start writing. Writing makes its own meaning ~ Henriette Anne Klauser

Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer. ~ Wendy Greuel

If you know what you want and persistently capture the thought, you will attract it to you. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I haven't had the smoothest life but somehow I've ended up an optimist. I figure if I keep believing Fate is good to me then it will be. Like Heather's 'fake it til you make it' attitude. You have to know what you want before what you want knows how to find you. ~ Catou Martine

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal. ~ Elbert Hubbard

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide. ~ Monique Lhuillier

Planning is helpful. If you don't know what you want, you'll seldom get it. But, no matter how well you plan, you will fare better if you expect the unexpected. The unexpected, by nature, comes unseen, unthought, unenvisioned. All you can do is plan to go unplanned, prepare to be unprepared, make going with the flow part of your agenda, for the most successful among us envision, plan, and prepare, but cast all aside as needed, while those who are unable to go with the flow often suffer, if they survive. ~ David W. Jones

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them. ~ Kameron Hurley

I'll take care of it,' said Richard Crawford quietly, and Lymond lifted his head. 'Oh, Richard. Timely as ever. I want.…'

'I know what you want,' said Lord Culter comfortably, and hooked an arm under his brother's stained shoulders.

'I doubt it,' said Lymond drily. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

I know what you want, and you don't need to take it. I can give it to you. ~ Krista Ritchie

You know what I mean. Sometimes you just know what you want, and it doesn't make any sense at all. What's that called?"
"Being human. ~ Heather Gean

The key to becoming a proactive influence for music education is the development of a "dream list." It is more often referred to as a long-term plan. Do you know what you want your program to look like in the next five years? Ten years? Start now! ~ John Benham

If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants. ~ Susan Collins

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it. ~ Audrey Flack

When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus. ~ Shannon L. Alder

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not. ~ Alan Lewis

Know what you want and believe that you can have it. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out. ~ John Goddard

If you really know ... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place. ~ Marlen Esparza

I know what you want. You're a vicious little hellcat - all teeth and claws. And you want to use them, don't you? You want to fight. You like to fight." She stiffened at the pinch of his teeth at her neck and he blew gently into her ear. "Fight me, then. Fight me as much as you want. As hard as you want. Because no matter what you do, I'm going to ruin you. No one will ever fuck you the way I do. ~ Nenia Campbell

People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want. ~ Susan Meissner

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know. ~ Joe Hill

If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want. ~ Barbara Sher

The waitress tapped her pen on the tab. "So do you guys know what you want?"
And then he did it, just as he always had whenever he'd been asked that question―he looked straight at Keri with blatant hunger in his eyes and said, "Yes, ma'am, I do. ~ Shannon Stacey

You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along. ~ Kate McGahan

It doesn't take objectivity to know what you want, and you're not objective enough to know what you need. ~ Amy Neftzger

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.' ~ Wendi McLendon-Covey

I know what you want. And I know what you need. But I'm gonna screw it up, yeah, cause I'm an idiot. And I'm your boyfriend. ~ Jimmy Fallon

If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

The whole point of wishing is not to focus on what you don't have it's to show you what could be. Once you know what you want then you know what to reach for what to dream about. It's how you change things. ~ Lisa Mangum

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself ... know what you want. ~ Janet Fitch

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. ~ Jim Carrey

At least you know what you want. I don't know what I want." Then he was quiet for a long time. We were almost home before he said, "Just want to be with you. Like this."
My heart sped up. I made a joke. "That's probably not a viable career option."
"Yeah," he said, laughing a little. "Probably not. ~ Sara Zarr

Anastasia - this is for you. I know what you want to hear. The music on here says it for me. Christian I ~ E.L. James

To know what you want, you need to know yourself. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered. ~ Kathleen McGowan

Most merciful God, order my day so that I may know what you want me to do, and then help me to do it. Let me not be elated by success or depressed by failure. I want only to take pleasure in what pleases you, and only to grieve at what displeases you. ~ Kurt Bjorklund

We know what you want to accomplish ... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done. ~ Seth Godin