Satisfaction Quotes - Page 21

• Wake up with a plan of action, go to bed with satisfaction.

  Greg Plitt

  Bed, Wake Up, Plans

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• Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Taken, Men, Animal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

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• There's so much pressure put on relationships to deliver the satisfaction of life. And to me, that is just not the answer. I feel like it should be something in addition to what you love or be a part of that.

  James Franco

  Answers, Pressure, Should

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• Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Art, Writing

  "Paul McCartney Is Esquire's August Cover Star". Interview with Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. February 7, 2015.

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• Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority, nationalism and ethnic exclusivism. No less pernicious, though not always as obvious, are the effects of materialistic consumerism, in which the exaltation of the individual and the selfish satisfaction of personal aspirations become the ultimate goal of life. In this outlook, the negative effects on others are considered completely irrelevant.

  Pope John Paul II

  Selfish, Eye, Goal

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• I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of establishing God's kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they have ever known.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Spiritual, Peace, Attitude

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• Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Intellectual, Mere

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ambition, Giving, Kind

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• From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and things are happening quicker, but you have the equipment to handle it.

  Mario Andretti

  Horror, Speed, Equipment

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Degrees

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.

  William James

  Truth, Mean, Giving

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• For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Teaching, Community, I've Learned

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Determination, Motivation, Nice

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Heart, Empathy

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Business, Growth, Customers

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 01, 2005.

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• I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly

  Bobby Rahal

  Missing You, Sports, Giving

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

  James Thurber

  Wall, Grandmother, Years

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• I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

  Al Lewis

  Needs, Radio, Tvs

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• Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

  John Piper

  Self, Mind, Scripture

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• Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.88, SPCK

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• Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes," and that "these things are very mysterious." Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

  John Adams

  Wisdom, Jesus, Justice

  John Adams (1961). “Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Diary, 1755-1770”, Belknap Pr

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• Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

  Matthew Kelly

  Mistake, Balance, Want

  Matthew Kelly (2011). “Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion”, Penguin

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

  George Leonard

  Lying, Discovery, Essence

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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