Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.
Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.
I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.
I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely vegetate - in all such creatures, the currents of the desire body flow outward from the liver.
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
I've always said, 'I didn't have a Plan B in life.' I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.
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