“It never ceases to amaze me how often I ask people, “What do you really want?”
Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
and they look at me blankly, unable to articulate the answer. It’s not that they don’t want things, it’s just that they don’t have a high level of clarity regarding the matter.”
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Journal Articles
“The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
As quoted in Garfield of Ohio : The Available Man (1970) by John M. Tyler
Ralph Peters (1952) American military officer, writer, pundit
Source: 2000s, Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World (2002), p. 133
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
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At the United Nations (1960)
Geoffrey West (1940) British physicist
2010s <br class="br">Source: Jonah Lehredec. " A Physicist Solves the City http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1," in www.nytimes.com. Dec 17, 2010.
“People know what they want because they know what other people want.”
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
