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This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.
If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.
A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.
Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.
A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!
Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.
I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.
O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
There's no replacement for having a burning desire to talk about something: 'I know this and other people need to know!'
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.
If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.
Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.
Take a step toward your dream today. No matter how tiny the step, it will give you the energy and desire to take another.
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.
In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.
God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.