Intrinsic Desire Quotes

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

You need to find your OWN purpose. I cannot BUILD desire.

I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure I was not trying just to respond to other people's expectations and that I really wanted it myself. I realized that I just loved tennis, that it was something extraordinary, that I would really want to do that.

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a way to do it, no matter what. If you're doing this because you're thinking, 'Hey, this will be really cool. I'll be famous. I'll be on YouTube,' then you'll probably quit, because it's not easy to do for the long haul.

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.