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• We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Done, Satisfaction, Wells

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• I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that.

  Michael Kenna

  Perspective, Important, Matter

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Self-confidence is confidence in the Atma; it is an unwavering love for the Divinity within you. That is very important. What will help you to develop that confidence? Be equalminded, be satisfied with what you have. Be happy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Self Confidence, Important, Divinity

  Source: souljourns.net

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• If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first thing an exploratory person would say is "why not?"

  John Medina

  People, Why Not, Might

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Society, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.15, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path.

  Michael Kenna

  Believe, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Matter, Speed

  "Development is my conviction, it's my commitment: PM Narendra Modi". www.narendramodi.in. June 27, 2016.

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• No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

  Daniel Fried

  Sphere Of Influence, Spheres, Great Power

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

  Denis Waitley

  Encouragement, Long, Goal

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• Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Want Something, Sick, Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2368, Delphi Classics

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• Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Doe, Ears

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• Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

  Carl Sagan

  Answers, Courageous, Superficial

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• Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

  Frank Herbert

  Science, Being Real, Done

  Frank Herbert (2014). “The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert”, p.149, Macmillan

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• The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fall, Have A Great Day, Neighbor

  "The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations".

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• A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.

  Dan Snow

  Looks, Ease, Stones

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• Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Satisfaction

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Care, Beneath The Surface

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• Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Answers

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• It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Order, Mind, Done

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1340, Library of America

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• We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sea, Depth, Upheaval

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

  Will Rogers

  Business, Successful, Satisfaction

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

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• We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dream, Hope, Painful

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Self, Rivalry

  George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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• There's always a way you can get better. You can never be satisfied. You can never say, 'That's good enough'.

  Kron Gracie

  Mma, Get Better, Way

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