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“It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.”

Men Firsts Moments Moving Race Sea Models Satisfaction Primitive Canvas Rude Exquisite Civilisation Moving Away

Book:The Aran Islands

Source: The Aran Islands

“In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.”

May Book Names Satisfaction Quoting

Book:The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer

Source: The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer

“I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.”

Ifs Jobs Mother Mom Satisfaction Hardest Being A Mom Day Jobs Hardest Job

Author:Katey Sagal

“The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.”

Dad Beats Satisfaction Adrenaline Your Dad Adrenaline Rush

Author:Lee Westwood

“My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.”

Ideas Inspiration Memories Satisfaction Shooting Thematic

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.”

Should Years Stills Certain Language Existence Thousand Distance Satisfaction Deeper Users Thousand Years Gratification Exhilaration

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.”

Knows Needs I Can Pleasure Achieve Satisfaction Pursue Lunch Seekers

Author:Lydia Lunch

“Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.”

People Littles Kids School Parent Poor Teacher Students Higher Cost Achievement Raises Satisfaction Reports Academic Charter Teacher And Student Charter Schools Academic Achievement

Author:Maggie Gallagher

“French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.”

Audience Satisfaction Cinema French Cinema

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.”

Ideas Might Beautiful Work Successful Satisfaction Ingenious Successful Work

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.”

People Way America Felt News Towns Satisfaction Wicked Sinner Farms Crash Small Town Grim Wicked Ways

Author:Ron Chernow

“The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.”

Humans Today Belief Social Growth Century Movement Possibility Creating Institutions Satisfaction Utopia Nineteenth Century Communes Social Institutions

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfaction from their jobs. That's something that I really do get a lot of.”

People Knows Jobs Satisfaction Personal Satisfaction

Author:Seth Rogen

“You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.”

Has Beens Poet Critics Satisfaction

Author:Theophile Gautier

“You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.”

Love Needs Giving I Can Walks Acting Air Like You Degrees Giving Up Give Me Satisfaction Satisfying Screenwriters Self-satisfaction

Author:Wentworth Miller

“For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.”

Sometimes Body Seems Sex Danger Murder Remains Suicide Meetings Hunger Satisfaction Torture Manipulation Metaphysical

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.”

Wise Faults Satisfaction

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Invest in the "process" rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals occasionally are reached, satisfactions derived from them are invariably disappointing unless the process has given ample satisfaction along the way.”

Way Given Process Goal Impossible Effects Products Perspective Satisfaction Anticipation Disappointing

Author:Theodore Isaac Rubin

“Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.”

People Want Dream Courses Defeat Satisfaction Advertising American Dream Dissatisfied

Author:Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

“Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.”

“Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?”

Life May Art Facts Certain Individual Natural Limits Satisfaction Conclusion Works Of Art

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.”

Love Mean States Desire Love Is Security Satisfaction Secure Vulnerability

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my hand up and there was satisfaction at seeing my blood, the way there was when I saw the red gouges onmy face that people stared at and turned away. They were thinking I was beautiful, but they were wrong, now they could see how ugly and mutilated I was.”

People Thinking Way Hands Beautiful Faces Mother Saws Seeing Blood Red Satisfaction Ugly Drunk Injury Knives Hands Up Self Injury

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.”

Wells Persons Energy Causes Greater Self Esteem Satisfaction Esteem Devoted Good Causes

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it. Desire is a manifestation of power.”

Ifs Want Real Desire Certain Can Do Forever Satisfaction Attraction Proof What You Want Law Of Attraction Manifestation Within You Compelled Doing What You Want

Book:Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

“One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.”

Way Art Artist Pay Demand Satisfaction

Author:Uta Hagen

“I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.”

People Thinking Way Want Writing Trying Mind Book Causes Leadership Greater Satisfaction Modest Writing A Book

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.”

Needs Humans States Reason Values Human Beings Race Moral Color Sacred Satisfaction Aids Consideration Assistance Nationality

Author:Simone Weil

“Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.”

Problem Age Spiritual Satisfaction Doctrine Primaries Curse Instant Superficiality

Book:Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth

Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth

“It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.”

Should Hands Steps Essentials Anxiety Hatred Satisfaction Fluctuation Hatred And Love

Book:Selected Melanie Klein

Source: Selected Melanie Klein

“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

Artist Alive Divine Strange Blessed Dance Satisfaction Vitality Dissatisfaction Unrest Choreographers Quickening

Author:Martha Graham

“The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.”

“There is only one boss. The customer.”

“People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy, more sexual satisfaction, for solutions to their sexual problems, and for aphrodisiacs.”

People Humans Problem Age Sex Human Beings Drug Solutions Satisfaction Links Ecstasy Nevertheless Aphrodisiac

Author:Rick Doblin

“Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him-perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol-and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. He calls you.”

Source: Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender

“I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.”

Ifs Spiritual Pleasure Knowing Garden Satisfaction Gardening

Book:Heaven is Under Our Feet

Source: Heaven is Under Our Feet

“I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.”

Tests Satisfaction Tested

Author:Ashton Eaton

“God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.”

Giving Doe Christ Grace Demand Satisfaction

Author:Martin Luther

“Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God”

Found Ultimate Satisfaction

Author:David Platt

“No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies by as if in a dream. Satisfaction in anything--a meal, an interaction, a gift, a sunset--depends on your willingness to take it in. Breathe. Feel your arms and your legs. You are allowed to love every little thing about yourself and your life. You are allowed to take up space and be all that you are. Really you are.”

“All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.”

Firsts Next Waiting Imagination Pleasure Novel Source Reader Grateful Satisfaction Suspense Thrillers Knowledge Experience

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.”

Men Has Beens Real Hard Pleasure Labor Satisfaction Climbing Hiking

Author:Annie Smith Peck

“Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.”

Greater Risk Mountain Essentials Commitment Satisfaction Weather Climbing Taking Risks Mountaineering

Author:Doug Scott

“My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.”

People Giving Feelings Turns Passion Energy Advice Figures Amount Photographer Satisfaction Tunes Climbing Climbers

Author:Galen Rowell

“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.”

Men Needs Long Certain Wealth Rich Amount Satisfaction Riches Satisfied

Book:Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

“The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.”

Successful Player Team Satisfaction Accomplishment Personal Satisfaction Successful Team

Author:Vince Lombardi

“Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.”

Sometimes Whole Desire Found Events Satisfaction Impatient

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.”

Years Facts Running Jobs Next Simple Keys Affair Satisfaction Odd Prize Love Affair Publication

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.”

Currents Satisfaction Hungry Satisfied Accomplishment

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger