Knowing What You Want Quotes

Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Direction is a thousand choices, a thousand decisions a day. And having a vision of what you want, and then knowing what you want frame-by-frame, second-by-second… if you don’t have it laid out in the design and in the way the actor performs it, it’s not going to happen.

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

There’s nothing wrong with knowing what you want and going after it.

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.

Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you’ll settle for.

The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

If you don’t know what you want, you will probably never get it.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

You don’t get what you want. You get what you are.