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The biggest motivation for me is my desire to be the best.
Oleksandr Usyk
Best
Me
Motivation
Biggest
Desire
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Oliver Goldsmith
Knowledge
Natural
Become
Numerous
Ease
Possible
Must
More
Attaining
Writers
Arise
Readers
Greatest
Whence
Necessarily
Desire
The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
Olivia Thirlby
Nature
Live
Older
Elsewhere
City
More
Longer
New
Go
Surrounded
Get
York
New York
New York City
Desire
When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
Om Puri
Me
Wife
About
Write
She
Because
Stop
Forgotten
Who
Expressed
Her
Desire
People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
Omar Sy
You
People
Will
Black
Closed
Doors
Else
Way
Say
Find
See
Something
Something Else
Only
Through
Open
Had
Look
Get
The Doors
Door
Little
Desire
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden
Law
Mind
Subconscious
Impress
Whatever
Must
Subconscious Mind
Accomplish
Subjective
Psychological
Desire
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
Orlando Jones
Character
Me
Hero
Alien
Will
Looking
Fall
Earth
One Of The Things
See
About
He
Around
Real
Discover
His
Want
Interested
Lap
Things
Desire
Save
The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
Orson Pratt
Me
Heart
Will
Concerning
Greatest
Lord
His
Manifest
Desire
I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
Paige VanZant
Life
Me
Hate
Win
Losing
Sit
Guess
Entire
Entire Life
Someone
More
Beating
Had
Cage
Idea
Like
Well
Always
Been
Very
Than
Just
Being
Competitive
Desire
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
Panayiotis Zavos
People
Will
Way
About
Something
Motivation
Normal
Children
Want
Cannot
Then
Help
Help People
Desire
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
Pankaj Mishra
Cynical
Negligence
Rule
India
Above
Directed
More
Divide
Rivalries
Policies
Were
Than
Any
Exploiting
Desire
British
I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
Patrick Chan
Me
People
Care
Own
Other
About
My Own
Well
Just
Skate
Satisfy
Desire
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness
You
Feeling
Ali
Tell
Find
Seem
David
Write
Writers
Like
Smith
Because
Get
Wallace
Burning
Burning Desire
Story
Who
Peter
Foster
Desire
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
Patrick Swayze
Love
Fear
Passion
Caring
Seeing
About
Scene
Powerful
Love Scene
Act
Desire
Need
My commitment, and my desire to win the ball or make a tackle, that will never change. But you grow up. I'm not 20 any more.
Patrick Vieira
You
Change
Commitment
Win
Will
Tackle
More
Never
Make
Ball
Up
Any
Grow
Grow Up
Desire
More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
Patti Smith
Life
Me
My Life
Singing
Other
Thread
More
More Than Anything
Through
Write
Taken
Been
Led
Than
Impulse
Anything
Places
Mean
Desire
AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what had been written on a subject before.
Paul Allen
Knowledge
Before
System
Born
About
Rather
Could
Had
Written
Been
Subject
Truly
Up
Offer
Than
Just
Create
Reason
Desire
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.
Paul Giamatti
Big
Some
Feel
Like
House
Done
Anything
Really
Momma
Even
Ever
Desire
When I say I want to become a legend, some people say it's pretentious. For me, it's a challenge. My desire, a dream. I'm not saying I'll get there, but it's what I want.
Paul Pogba
Saying
Me
People
Challenge
Pretentious
Some People
Become
Legend
Say
Dream
People Say
Some
Get
Want
Desire
But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
Paul Robeson
Peace
People
Remained
American
American People
Deep
Deep Desire
Desire
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Paul Robeson
Class
Peace
Drive
Minds
Danger
Ruling
Ruling Class
East
Threatened
Propaganda
Fact
Hysteria
Leaders
Stepped
Because
False
Up
American
In Fact
Them
Land
Notion
Deep
Deep Desire
Desire
I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit.
Paul Rust
Funny
Think
Bit
Throw
Liked
Also
Mixture
Wanting
Elbows
Your
Desire
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
Paul Theroux
Spent
No Desire
Point
House
Leave
Years
Improving
Where
Place
Many
Desire
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul de Man
Hope
Whatever
Marks
Out
Point
Could
Wipe
True
New
Reaching
Least
Came
Exists
Departure
Form
Modernity
Origin
Present
Earlier
Desire
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho
Work
You
Lose
Promising
Towards
Getting
Your
Even
Start
Desire
Drive and desire was something I was raised with. It became a very important part of how I've become.
Peggy Whitson
Drive
Important
Become
Something
Part
Became
Important Part
How
Very
Raised
Desire
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