Thom Yorke Quotes

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

I want to have it all.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

One always wants more when things work out.

Be contented, when you have got all you want.

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good enough for a lifetime; why do we always have to be ramping up?

My happiness is not going to be driven solely on whether we win a Super Bowl or not.

Success doesn't make you happy.

I guess I could be happy in anything where you feel like there's a scoreboard.

It's wonderful to see someone you love get what they wanted.

As long as we're winning, I'm happy.

My dreams have come true.

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.