The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Patrick Swayze

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Steve Jobs

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom Landry

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Tom Landry

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot

I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
Chris Rock

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass