Increasingly, companies are tapping into these desires directly through what has come to be known as "gamification": essentially, turning work into a game.

She is not doing this to drive you crazy; rather, she is learning that her desires and yours can differ, and that sometimes those differences are important and sometimes they are not.

We tend to equate（等同于）happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires it's harder to know what we want, or where we're heading.

The novelist Edward St Aubyn has a narrator remark of the very rich that, "not having to consider affordability, their desires rambled on like unstoppable bores, relentless (持續(xù)不斷的) and whimsical（反復(fù)無常的）at the same time

Civilian aviation is being disrupted, not by the age-old desires for speed, romanticism and glamour, but by the pressing need to respond to a changing climate.

In one experiment, people who reported feeling isolated were more likely than others to attribute desires to various gadgets.

It's time in which we are directed by the needs and desires of others, and denied the right to make our own choices.

Success means getting personal desires satisfied.

Whatever our circumstances, we generally still have dreams, hopes and desires—that little something more we want for ourselves and our loved ones.

Parents need to remind their children that their needs and desires may change over time, said Julie Garner, a real estate analyst with FitSmallBusiness.com.