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• To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.

  Hannah Kearney

  Overcoming, Wells

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• In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

  W. H. Auden

  Zero, Winning, Games

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• Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

  Neil Postman

  Worry Less, Discipline, President

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.98, Penguin

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• So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

  Vinton Cerf

  Effort, Bears, Given

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• In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

  A. N. Wilson

  Education, Circles, Intellectual

  The Guardian, September 30, 1989.

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• Happiness does not come quickly. It is not conferred by any single event, however exciting or comforting or satisfying the event may be. It cannot be purchased, whatever the allure of the next, the newest, the brightest, the best. Happiness, like Carl Sandburg's fog, "comes on little cat feet," often silently, often without our knowing it, too often without our noticing.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Happiness, Cat, Fog

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• What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Nature, Opposites, Soul

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• I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I discovered in photos what had been missing in paintings; namely that they make a terrific variety of statements and have great substance. That is what I wanted to convey to paintings and apply to it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Missing, Technique

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Beautiful, Running

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

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• No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  People, Foundation, Republic

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• Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

  Linda Grant

  Revenge, Regret

  Linda Grant (1995). “A Woman's Place”, Fawcett Books

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• Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

  Pauli Murray

  Art, Impact, Tragedy

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• Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Mean, Men, Disease And Death

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.84, Zed Books

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• In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.

  Carmine Gallo

  Writing, Numbers, Three

  Carmine Gallo (2014). “Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds”, p.195, St. Martin's Press

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• Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

  Michael Pollan

  Appreciation, Consciousness, Eating

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

  Amy Poehler

  Way, Sometimes, Please

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Mean, Perfect, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.

  Bill Nighy

  People, Agree

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• Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

  Nita Ambani

  Motherhood, Challenges, World

  "Ever wonder if you’ll make it through motherhood?" by Linda G, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2017.

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• Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.

  William Tapley Bennett Jr.

  Color, Two, Effort

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• The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.

  Edward Thomson

  Men, Simple, Hands

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• I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

  Renee Fleming

  Joy, Humanity, Singing

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.179, Penguin

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• Taking a toddler to school is one of the most satisfying moments in my many years in public life. There is no better joy than laying the foundations of a strong future for these little children.... Friends, let us all become partners in this quest for ensuring education for all!

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Strong, Children

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• Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

  Rachel Johnson

  Mean, Bored, Blonde

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• Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Rocks, Flames

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