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• Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant.

  Jacob de Jager

  Learning, Easy, Pleasant

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• We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

  Desmond Morris

  Survival, Answers, Enough

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Inspire, Bed

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

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• That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, Giving, Choices

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• I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.

  Serena Williams

  Fighting, People, Tennis

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• Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Self, Long

  "Cultural Criticism and Society". Essay by Theodor Adorno (1949), reprinted in his book "Prisms", 1967.

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• Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Excellence

  Woodrow Wilson (1929). “When a Man Comes to Himself”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

  Henry Ford

  Running, Believe, Long

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• You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Passion, Ambition

  Song: Vienna

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• A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

  Cyril Connolly

  Emotion, Reason, Violent

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• Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Body, Wealth

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• Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Mastery, Surrender

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

  Mike Gordon

  Dating, Written

  Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

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• You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

  Alex Kapranos

  Attitude, Trying, Want

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• Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

  Mark Lepper

  Purpose, Anticipation, Study

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• A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, People, Meals

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Trust, Chance, Worried

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• When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful and happy

  W. Clement Stone

  Gratitude, Grateful, Hopeful

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• Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition.

  Tom Regan

  Animal, Rights, Views

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• Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Want, Littles, Little Things

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• I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

  Lemon Andersen

  Needs, Want, Great Work

  Interview with Mike Geffner, inspiredwordnyc.com.

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• Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!

  Octavius Winslow

  Happy Life, Past, Blood

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• Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

  Jon Foreman

  Dog, Pride, Nudge Nudge

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• Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

  Mia Michaels

  Motivational, Levels, Becoming

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• When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

  Stephen Charnock

  Faith, God, Christian

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