Satisfaction Quotes · Page 54

Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become…

— Herbert Marcuse

Dreaming allows us to satisfy our desire without performing our task. It is always free to dream, but dreaming too much can…

— Anonymous

I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which…

— Britta Phillips

“The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with…

— Roy F. Baumeister

It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia…

— Lionel Jospin

My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara,…

— Gayle King

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was…

— Richard Steele

So spirituality itself should be self satisfying. If you are spiritually endowed, then you are self satisfied. And this self satisfaction within…

— Nirmala Srivastava

I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely…

— Isaac Newton

Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of…

— Marcus Garvey

A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got…

— David J. Schwartz

Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but…

— Norm MacDonald

It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him…

— M. F. K. Fisher

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become…

— Amy Tan

The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the…

— Sam Walton

I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

— David S. Rose

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general…

— Meher Baba

“Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can…

— Bell Hooks

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing,…

— Niklaus Wirth

Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually…

— Rick Warren

I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said…

— Jonathan Franzen

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an…

— John McNally

Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If…

— Nana Patekar

By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the…

— Jonathan Edwards

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple;…

— Charles Lamb

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes,…

— Samuel Johnson

I think that he [Michael Jackson] did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives…

— Philip Johnson

Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of…

— Stephen Levine

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of…

— George Sand

When I left Harvard Pilgrim, it had been ranked first in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for customer satisfaction…

— Charlie Baker

Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the…

— Suze Orman

Supporting a cause, while it may be done in the eyes of the public or in your own quiet ways, not only…

— Bhumika Chawla

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air…

— Dale Carnegie

Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us.…

— Sri Chinmoy

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of…

— George A. Smith

“...inner feeling of satisfaction which may be observed in the presence of a sudden accident, even in those nearest and dearest to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky