Dissatisfaction Quotes - Page 7

• Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Trying, Gone, Action

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• And you, whiner, who wastes your time
  Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
  What evil, what unspeakable crime
  Have you made your life worth?

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Evil, Earth, Waste

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• Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Mistake, Spring

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

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• There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

  Alan Moore

  Growing, Bigs, Distrust

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s 'Toxic Cloud' And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.

  William O. Douglas

  Acceptance, Ideas, Government

  "Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 16, 1949.

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• The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Healthy, Purpose

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• Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

  Paul Tournier

  Expression, Ordinary, Serious

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• The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Men, Would Be

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

  Deborah Solomon

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.

  George Carlin

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  Las Vegas CityLife, August 09, 2007.

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• Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

  Jim Carrey

  Acting, World, Divine

  "Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Innovation, Reason, Danger

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.86, Stanford University Press

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• Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Want, Despotism, Shots

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• ...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Past, Judging

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.

  Alexander Theroux

  Husband, Distance, Men

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• I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life.

  Morgan Freeman

  Morning, Sleep, Grumpiness

  "Fox411 QA: Morgan Freeman on why he believes he is God and which successful film he hated making". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. July 06, 2012.

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• Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, World, Displeasure

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• I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
  We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;
  And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
  Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Twilight, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Fall, Passion

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.53, 谷月社

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• Caesar's double-bed is warm
  As an unimportant clerk
  Writes i do not like my work
  On a pink official form.

  W. H. Auden

  Work, Writing, Clerks

  W. H. Auden, “The Fall Of Rome”

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• Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

  Tony Robbins

  Jobs, Heart, Numbers

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• Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

  Abraham Myerson

  Life, Block, Believe

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• I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Hands, Play

  "Q&A: John Elkington". Interview with Jessie Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November 2008.

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• My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

  Charlton Heston

  Television, Facts, Mediums

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency

  Albert Bandura

  Dysfunction, Self, Problem

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