“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
As quoted by Seneca (Epistles, 94)
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Cato the Elder15
politician, writer and economist (0234-0149) -234–-149 BCRelated quotes
“Do you want to be what you are or do you want to be what continually changes what you are?”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
2017 Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4fjSrVCDvA <br class="br">Maps of Meaning
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.”
Denzel Washington (1954) actor, screenwriter, director, producer
Variant: Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.
“What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
15 November 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/136655692730863616 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
