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You might be a networking god, building alliances, or just curious, going around and wanting to explore as much as you possibly can.
But recently I did spend three months in bed, wanting to die.
Really wanting to die.
We simply cannot tolerate GPS jammers and spoofers, and yet, given the lack of effective legal means for protecting our privacy from the GPS dot, can you really blame people for wanting to turn them on, for wanting to use them?
He said he could hear the party in the kitchen, but he felt like he was always trapped in the basement, in his own little world, wanting to be part of the party but not able to walk upstairs.
Within two weeks, I had 150 people wanting to join in.
To hear this dialogue that's just increasing in tenor and velocity, of decisions about trade and companies wanting to come.
Similarly, people are prone to annoying things like decisions and not wanting to walk into each other, which makes the problem all the more complicated.
So, only in Broadmoor would not wanting to hang out with serial killers be a sign of madness.
The town hall and the police department had also suffered direct hits, and so people wanting to help or needing information went to the church.
A traditional leader is always wanting to be right, whereas a creative leader hopes to be right.
That feeling of wanting to jump up and down is one of the ways that scientists measure joy.
And then there's the wanting system.
So wanting and liking are related.
When we see this separateness of wanting, liking and learning, this is where we find an explanatory framework for understanding what researchers call arousal nonconcordance.
Research over the last 30 years has found that genital blood flow can increase in response to sex-related stimuli even if those sex-related stimuli are not also associated with the subjective experience of wanting and liking.
Your genital behavior just doesn't necessarily predict your subjective experience of liking and wanting.
I got a phone call two weeks later from Catherine Pilgrim, my cofounder, wanting to do something for the family.
It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
Put yourself in the position of the kidnapper wanting to bribe the officer.
So I think that, if people understand how much we're starting to depend on the Internet, and how vulnerable it is, we could get focused on just wanting this other system to exist, and I think if enough people say, "Yeah, I would like to use it, I'd like to have such a system," then it will get built.
They can be taught to be passionate about wanting to learn and to love the idea of asking questions.
And after spending all my life wanting to do art, I left art school, and then I left art completely.
I would wander the streets searching for food, and I remember seeing a small child tied to a mother's back eating chips, and wanting to steal them from him.
Too human for some, like conservative Muslim theologians who maintain that the account of his wanting to kill himself shouldn't even be mentioned, despite the fact that it's in the earliest Islamic biographies.
How do I get around the problem of really wanting to have as many different voices going on at the same time.
Now, Tom Ripley goes from wanting you or wanting what you have to being you and having what you once had, and you're under the floorboards, he's answering to your name, he's wearing your rings, emptying your bank account.
I couldn't be a very good engineer if I wasn't wanting to innovate, but we have to do so from a position of knowledge and strength and understanding.
This is a city that's wanting to do something about it."
So it was comments like these that really discouraged me from wanting to make change in the future because I thought, people don't care, people think it's a waste of time, and people are going to be disrespectful to me and my family.
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