Satisfactory Quotes

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No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds… — Burnett Hillman Streeter
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . .… — Ambrose Bierce
What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going… — Adyashanti
The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a… — Warren Buffett
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise. — Ella Maillart
Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get… — John Anderson
A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is… — Charles Stanley
What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find… — Hizkias Assefa
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too… — James Payn
It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality — Wolfgang Paul
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than… — Daniel Taylor
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory… — George MacDonald
I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had… — Margaret Mead
The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for… — Maurice Francis Egan
You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow… — Warren Buffett
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process… — B.F. Skinner
The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could… — Alice B. Toklas
Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational… — Mike Mentzer

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