Satisfying Quotes - Page 31

• I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.

  Andy Richter

  Firsts, Structure, Tension

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Home, Artist, California

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.

  Todd Haynes

  Views, Ideas, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

  June Diane Raphael

  Eight, Years, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Walking is simple and second nature for most of us. It's an everyday kind of activity, not something that's frequently the rage of fashion or touted for its sex appeal. Yet few physical pursuits in this life are ultimately as rewarding. It's a wonderfully satisfying way to spend an hour, and afternoon, a day, or longer.

  Charlie Cook

  Fashion, Sex, Simple

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• Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

  David Byrne

  Guitar, Names, Envious

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• God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Blood, Righteousness, God Knows

  William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.499, Westminster John Knox Press

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• A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

  Brian Tracy

  Years, Keys, People

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• I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.

  Maria Bamford

  Writing, Listening, Loud

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• Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and that's very satisfying. It forces you to pay great attention and you lose yourself in the task at hand. Without the risk, that wouldn't happen, so the risk is an essential part of climbing, and that's hard for some people to grasp. You can't justify the risk when things go wrong and people die. The greater the risk, the greater the reward in most aspects of life, and in climbing that's certainly true, too. It's very physical, you use your mind and your body.

  Jon Krakauer

  Real, Hands, Climbing

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• Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

  Robert Stromberg

  Art, Elements, Pieces

  Source: collider.com

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• TV can be fairly rigid. I've done enough Network TV to know that it's fun but if I have to go somewhere every day maybe it's not the most satisfying [job].

  Jenny Slate

  Jobs, Fun, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Lying, Men

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• This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. 
  (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

  Cobi Jones

  Years, Usa, Perfection

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• Completing a large or difficult survey can be a very satisfying thing, especially if there have been hurdles or setbacks along the way. In our work, we get to "tick" off jobs quite often, so the sense of completion can also be rewarding.

  Mark Mason

  Jobs, Way, Tick

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I would always choose the script. You get more creative control that way. But, when you're in a situation like this, where everyone is really funny and you really want to do it, that's the chance of a lifetime, so you want to do it. But, a script has longer legs than a performance and, in the end, is more satisfying. It's harder, but it's more satisfying.

  Justin Theroux

  Creative, Legs, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me.

  Steve Antin

  People, Want, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern of satisfying an internal disconnect with an external stimulation, and that's a dead-end road, sweetie. Courtney Love lives on that road; you don't want to live on that road.

  Dana Gould

  Daughter, Love Life, Bored

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• While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Girl, Father, Eye

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.620, Macmillan

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• To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Curiosity, Important

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• Social media changed my thought process and connected me to the rest of the world. And as I started connecting, the world started accepting me as I was. Nothing could be more satisfying.

  Narendra Modi

  Media, World, Social

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• Anarchism as the name for an ideal total social form is a really complicated question. I have never found satisfying answers from anarchists about the definition of the state they are opposed to. Most are opposed to coercive forms of state power. Questions about large scale systems of organization and how they will be funded - those are questions it's hard to get anarchists to give good answers to.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Names, Organization, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I just see in pop culture, music, visual art, books, etc., a real hunger for the new and different, and I think that's amazing. Satisfying this hunger is part of the responsibility of a creative person.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Art, Real, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

  Matthea Harvey

  Blue, Long, Suitcases

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left off - the gang facing this wall of animals charging at a car. And so, it'll be satisfying in that way. The cliffhanger in Season 1 just kind of went to black screen. It picks up right where that left off. And from there on, the stakes just continue to rise in the season, and I think it's really adrenaline-filled.

  James Wolk

  Zoos, Wall, Thinking

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