Knowing What You Want Quotes

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

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.

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.

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

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

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

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

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.

True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don’t want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.

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

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

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.

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.

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.

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

There’s something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.