Satisfying Quotes - Page 24

• Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Money, Work

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.9, Penguin

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• I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Play

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• A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean bottom, and has not drowned. What now?

  Sandra Scarr

  Fashion, Baby, Healthy

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• I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.

  Leah Chase

  People, Cooking, Sandwiches

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• It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

  Matthew Weiner

  Ambition, Ugly Things, People

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• The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

  Murray Rothbard

  Mean, Desire, Needs

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.422, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Writing, Media, Next Week

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.

  Robert Pattinson

  Doors, Want, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• It's as satisfying to me as, uh, coming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and coming.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sex, Having Sex, Knows

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare wreck of a pirate ship, which had been captained by one of the most remarkable pirates in history. This is a real-life Treasure Island, complete with swashbuckling, half-crazy treasure hunters and vivid Caribbean settings-a story for the ages.

  Douglas Preston

  Crazy, Real, Book

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• I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1460, Delphi Classics

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• Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

  Mason Cooley

  Evil, Malevolence, Shameful

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• Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

  Alice Munro

  Luck, Doe, Looks

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• For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Sex, Self, Expectations

  Lillian B. Rubin (1991). “Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?”, HarperCollins

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• The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

  Earl Blaik

  Fun, Sacrifice, Essence

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• Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

  P. D. James

  Book, Reading, Pleasure

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.

  B. C. Forbes

  Pain, Taken, Order

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• Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Pain, Food, Tired

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Doe, Body, Spirit

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• An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Passion, Childhood

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.55

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• Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Ideas, Brain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

  Andy Richter

  Thinking, Focus, Important

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.

  Robert Six

  Work, Simple, Ideas

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• The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Adventure, Journey

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Working with a green screen is easy. It's just like being a kid. But it's not nearly as satisfying.

  Rachel Weisz

  Kids, Green, Easy

  Source: deadline.com

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