Patrick Wilson Quotes

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

I've never been motivated by the award thing. There's a certain thing that this fame thing does that makes my job harder, in a way. I'm still working with that. I don't think about it too much until somebody asks me a question, and then I think about it.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

You learn very quickly where you feel fulfilled and where you don't.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.

There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth.

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

What we want is not always what we need.

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

I don't understand why I do what I do. I don't understand why I act anymore. But I do know that I love it, and that I find it really interesting and satisfying to enter into other worlds and explore different ways of thinking.

You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.

My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.