Satisfying Quotes

Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.

When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

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.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all concerned.

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

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

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.

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

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.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.

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?

Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs.