Satisfaction Quotes - Page 10

• The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Community, Musical, Mathematics

  7 Copy quote

• I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.

  Stjepan Mesic

  Thinking, Europe, Croatia

  68 Copy quote

• Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Mean, Humility, Should

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Men, Cities

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.240, Best Books on

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.

  Marcus Garvey

  Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Men

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Problem, Life Is

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Art, Writing, Sight

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob Africa of every bit of its wealth for the satisfaction of their race and the upkeep of their bankrupt European countries.

  Marcus Garvey

  Country, Race, Desire

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.60, The Majority Press

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.

  Ricky Gervais

  Loyalty, Encouragement, People

  "The Office". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2001 - 2003.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

  Edgar Quinet

  Infinity, Mistrust, Possession

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Successful, Satisfied

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Self, Views

  "Marriage interruptus: Giving up too early". amydickinson.com. August 27, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work.

  Lewis Thomas

  Morning, Self, Order

  7 Copy quote

• I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Giving, Give Me

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

  Oswald Chambers

  Our Lives, Seeking

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.511, Discovery House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

  Peter Turchi

  Book, Games, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.

  Sean Sullivan

  Real, Bridges, Creating

  4 Copy quote

• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Creative, Different, Cinema

  5 Copy quote

• Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Hate, Rights

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

  George Gissing

  War, Writing, Mean

  "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Summer, § VII, p. 89, 1903.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.88, Enhanced Media Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

  Abraham Flexner

  Passion, Thinking, Curiosity

  31 Copy quote

• Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest.

  Larry David

  Laughing, Honest, Being Honest

  "Hitching a Ride With Larry David". Interview with Paul Samuel Dolman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

  Idries Shah

  Prayer, Mean, Emotional

  Idries Shah (1991). “Seeker After Truth”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Echoes

  7 Copy quote