Larry Wall Quotes

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

Be contented, when you have got all you want.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

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

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

What can I have that I still want?

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

I always want to know whether the customers are satisfied; customer satisfaction is, after all, my ultimate goal!

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

Walking beside you I want for nothing.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

I would not want to live in any other period.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.