for my greatest skill has been to want but little.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

— Henry David Thoreau

“My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A”

— Rolf Potts

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little…

— Tony Robbins

“The greatest skill that an author could possess, she thought, was the ability to make a reader see a book as his or her…

— Rakesh Satyal

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

— Harris Faulkner

“Knowing and mastering the ability to stop yourself when you least want to, and letting silence speak instead of you, is the greatest skill…

— Aleksandar Sasha Trajkovski

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

— Joel Rosenberg

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

— Diogenes

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

— Joseph Heller

“When he'd been small, people had said things like, "And what do you want to be, little man?" and he'd said, "I don’t know.…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and…

— David Almond

“No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding…

— Carol Ryrie Brink

It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.

— Mark Victor Hansen

I have friends say, "Don't you want to have a little you?" The jury's still out on that for me. I don't have a…

— Sarah Paulson

“If we have little, and we want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.”

— Veronica Roth