(2074 quotes found)
“The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.”
Albert Einstein
“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.”
Aristotle
“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.”
Napoleon Hill
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
Socrates
“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.”
Lawrence Block
“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve”
“Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.”