Satisfaction Quotes - Page 24

• Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed.

  Peter Medawar

  Pride, Practice, People

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• There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.

  John Wooden

  Fun, Joy, Easy

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• In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Ambition, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sports, Tired, Night

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• When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Taken, Delight, Unions

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Often Is, Unhappy, Unhappiness

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• There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hurt, Eight, People

  "Double Star". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956.

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• There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.

  Petrarch

  Years, Sometimes, Failing

  "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters". Book edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 426, 1898.

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• In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

  Willa Cather

  Desire, Quests, Might

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Law, Support, Democracy

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.103, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Information, Essentials

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

  Paul Newman

  Running, Spinning, Wheels

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• 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.

  Atul Gawande

  Skills, Two, Understanding

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• Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.

  Charlie Munger

  Views, Long, Rejection

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• Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

  Peter Porter

  Writing, Giving, Form

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• The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, America, Awards

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• Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Adversity, Land

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• To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest delight comes when His people discover the ultimate value lies in the knowledge of God. Nothing in the material world can complete with the delights that are present in His Person.

  Max Anders

  Christian, Lying, People

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• God is glorified when His people find satisfaction in Him and in His provisions for them.

  Max Anders

  People, Provision

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• The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Father, Justice, Would Be

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• On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Needs, Process

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• Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.

  Eusebius

  Drawing, Punishment, Miracle

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• One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Illumination, Sobriety, Vision

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.

  Doris Day

  Average, Cameras, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Giving, Joy, Meals

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