Satisfaction Quotes - Page 22

• Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

  Matthew Kelly

  Mistake, Balance, Want

  Matthew Kelly (2011). “Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion”, Penguin

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• My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.

  Paul Goodman

  Sex, Self, Views

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

  George Leonard

  Lying, Discovery, Essence

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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• Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.

  Philip Levine

  Writing, Careers, Long

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• Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

  Edward Young

  Hate, Heart, Giving

  Edward Young (1767). “The works of the author of the Night-thoughts: In four [i.e. five] volumes”, p.87

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• One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

  John Piper

  Discovery, Important, Ministry

  John Piper (1997). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, Multnomah Pub

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• Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

  John Locke

  Law, Punishment, Balance

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.28

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• For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

  John Locke

  Brother, Eye, Men

  John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27

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• I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.

  William Morris

  Art, Exercise, Giving

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Suffering, Merit, Christ

  "Works, Vol. 5". Book by Jonathan Edwards, E. Baines, p. 489, 1809.

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• People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who believe in heaven and hell tend to be less happy than those believe only in heaven.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Believe, People, Heaven

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

  Harrison Ford

  Independent, Support, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction.

  Sam Keen

  Real, Successful, Ideas

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Linux, Needs

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?

  Walt Kelly

  Running, Fun, Mean

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• Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

  John of the Cross

  Prayer, Giving Up, Love You

  Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodríguez (1991). “The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross”

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• In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Boredom

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

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• The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.

  William C. Menninger

  Reality, Emotional, Maturity

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• All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.

  Masaaki Imai

  Two, Effort, Kaizen

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• I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Littles, Arguing, Economic

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• Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings were judged more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

  Christopher Alexander

  Unique, Reality, People

  Christopher Alexander (2002). “The Nature of Order: The process of creating life”, p.129, Taylor & Francis

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• Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  World, Spiteful, Laughed

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• Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach a full understanding of human nature and the conditions of human satisfaction. The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, physics, but many were good psychologists.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Understanding, Example, May

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.241, Basic Books

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• You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

  Albert Einstein

  Track, Different, Looks

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• We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.

  Jake Heggie

  Believe, Passion, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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