Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Desire is important.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Goals are essentially private things.

I set goals, and I like to reach them and accomplish new things.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Desire is the key to motivation.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

Desire creates the power.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

I'm not a big goal guy.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.