Top 1200 Desire To Learn Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

You learn how to persevere... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.

You have to learn the playbook inside and out. You have to learn code words for each play. You have to learn defenses.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond requires a degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful knowledge.

I learn from everybody I work with, and you learn, every single day. I can learn from anyone. Being fortunate enough to perform in front of a changing live audience, every night, you learn from everybody. Everyone has an opinion and they'll let you know.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.

Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.

If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.