“It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.” MenHumansAbilityPerfectParticularActivitySkillsSurvivalSpeciesSatisfactionMeaningfulMeaning Of LifeAcquireYieldMasteryUtilityMeaningful LifeAcquisitionHuman ActivityLife Means Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and to find satisfaction in his usefulness.” PeopleFeelsImportantSelfHelpingIndividualPaySelf EsteemHigherSkillsIncreaseSatisfactionEsteemComplimentUsefulnessCompliments You Author:Donald Laird
“Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.” MenNeedsWellsJobsPoliticalInterestOpinionEffectsPrideSkillsDemandMachinesMajorityProfoundWorkersPopulationSatisfactionFewerTransformedStrictManualsLaborersPolitical OpinionsRegimentation Author:W. H. Auden
“Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.” IfsTenSkillsExtraordinarySatisfactionBurdenVocationMillionaireLighters Author:John Piper
“Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.” FirstsMayProblemSeemsNextDifficultAbilityEffortStrugglePossibilitySkillsPainfulSatisfactionCommunicateSolveInstanceDevelopingRight ThingFind MeNew Possibilities Author:Atul Gawande
“I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.” HumansKindSaidTwoUnderstandingSkillsConnectionsSatisfactionHuman Connection Author:Atul Gawande
“Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.” HardSkillsFindingsSatisfactionFulfillmentRestaurantsServing Author:Mario Batali
“Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.” MenShouldMovingEnergyGoalSituationPrinciplesModernPositionPersonalitySkillsHighestFairsAimFellowsInvestmentProfitSatisfactionTransformedConsideringCommodityFellow ManPackagesProfitableModern ManArt Of Loving Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.” MemoriesCreativityEmotionalSkillsTestsLogicSatisfactionInsightFavorsArtisticLife ExperienceReservesSensoryResiliencyOverlookingArtistic Creativity Author:Diane Ackerman