"You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will."

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"You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will."

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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

Penelope Lively, English Author

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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

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"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."

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"So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled."

Technology

"Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do."

Time

"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."

Friendship

"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."

Age

"Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school."

Experience

"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."

Democracy

"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country."

Creativity

"I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children."

Success

"If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration."

Family

"But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents."

Life