Dissatisfied Quotes - Page 7

• The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

  Bruce Barton

  Hard Work, Home, People

  "Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America". Book by T. J. Jackson Lears, 1994.

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• All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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• In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

  Michael Azerrad

  Powerful, Stupid, Past

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• There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

  Seneca the Younger

  Punishment, Wickedness, Deeds

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• Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

  John Ralston Saul

  Mother, Father, Men

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

  Saadi

  Heart, Shells, Body

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.156, Innovations and Information

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

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Dream, People, Want

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• The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.

  Ernst Junger

  Artist, Safety, Political

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• If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Miracle, Photographer

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• To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Leader, Awake, All Time

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• Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Men, Return Back

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.31, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

  Barbara Jordan

  Way, Resolve, Ifs

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• I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

  Thomas Sadoski

  News, States, Active

  Source: collider.com

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• Always, at the end of every book, there are things you will be unsatisfied with, and still more things that later on you will realize were not right. But mistakes are part of what a book is. That itchy, dissatisfied feeling at the end of a novel is useful. It's what keeps you writing and gets you writing the next one. It's what keeps you learning.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Mistake, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Stupid, Weakness, Satisfied

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• I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

  Giles Duley

  Fashion, Years, People

  Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the needs of our children and harden our hearts against them, we will continue to feel torn, dissatisfied, and exhausted…. The guilt we feel for neglecting our children is a byproduct of our love for them. It keeps us from straying too far from them, for too long. Their cry should be more compelling than the call from the office.

  Danielle Crittenden

  Children, Heart, Long

  Danielle Crittenden (2009). “What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Giving, Wish

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• Thankfulness
  can reduce stress in your life by making you more content with who you
  are and what you have. If you make a habit of accepting every
  circumstance gratefully and assuming there is a purpose in it, you'll be
  relieved from the worry and anxiety that go with being resentful and
  dissatisfied.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Stress, Worry, Anxiety

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• We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for something far beyond the material satisfaction. Find your place in history this Thanksgiving by stretching beyond your table. Celebrate your survival by offering peace and sharing with your neighbors. Make the shift from in illogical feeling of lack to the recognition of abundance. Invite the Spirit to your feast, and prepare to feed the world.

  Jennifer James

  Thanksgiving, Offering, Feelings

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• Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.

  Thomas Merton

  Moving, New Beginnings, Worry

  Thomas Merton (2008). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.90, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

  Clarence Day

  God, Father, Guests

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Morning, Leaving, Bed

  Edgar Wilson Nye, Frank Wilson Nye (1971). “Bill Nye, his own life story”, Scholarly Pr

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• The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Civilization, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

  Horace

  Horse, Envy, Lazy

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