“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”

“I was infected with my desire, my resolve, to make it in broadcasting. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and how.”

Howard Cosell (1918–1995) American sportscaster

“What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

“The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

“Skill to do comes of doing.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Do you want to talk to me? Or what do you want to do with me? Watch my eating techniques here? How I gorge the chicken? How I eat like a barracuda?”

Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer

“If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.”

Julian Barnes book Arthur & George

“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher