Satisfying Quotes - Page 12

• Skeet shooting is probably more satisfying if you really hate skeets.

  Demetri Martin

  Hate, Shooting, Ifs

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2013

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• If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Heart, Soul, Ears

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.31, Anamchara Books

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• The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

  George Will

  Important, Generations, Next

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• The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.

  William Graham Sumner

  Civilization, Giving, Envy

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• The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

  Murray Rothbard

  Mean, Desire, Needs

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.422, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I'm certainly not on a mission to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress, any more than I am just to be able to get roles that are exciting and satisfying to me. If that means action, then that means action.

  Zoe Bell

  Taken, Mean, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.

  Alexis Denisof

  Parenthood, Thrilling

  Source: collider.com

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• Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

  Rene Char

  Reality, Imagination, Magic

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• The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

  Deepa Mehta

  Interesting, Rays, India

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• I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Children, People

  "Buffett: Dimon had to bare throat like a wolf in submission to watchdogs". Interview with Betty Liu, www.hitc.com. 2013.

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• 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.

  Paul Krugman

  Believe, Ideas, World

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• Relationships are like apples: they can be sweet and satisfying. But once you bite into a bad one, it's hard to go back to the barrel again.

  John Avery

  Sweet, Apples, Barrels

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• To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.

  Griffin Dunne

  People, Laughing, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

  Griffin Dunne

  Actors, Way, Process

  Source: collider.com

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• One thing Fringe has is no shortage of ideas. There are so many jumping off points that we could use and have thought about. I just wouldn't want to pull a trick like that on the viewers. I really want to reward them. I honestly and sincerely feel that it's the most miraculous fan base I've ever seen, so I just want to make sure I use every fiber of my body to deliver for them what I think is going to be satisfying for their loyalty.

  J.H. Wyman

  Loyalty, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• My only hesitation after Law & Order was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.

  Jamie Bamber

  Order, Law, Dry

  "Jamie Bamber Talks MONDAY MORNINGS, Working with David E. Kelley & Dr. Sanjay Gupta, His Thoughts on the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Finale, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 8, 2013.

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• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Mean, Careers, Entrepreneur

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• Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

  Joe Sacco

  Teaching, Exhausting

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• When it's only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don't think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.

  Raf Simons

  Thinking, Years, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.

  Jane Fonda

  Dog, Coffee, Doors

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new worldviews and new structural dilemmas and new characters - it's really exciting for me.

  Emily Barton

  Teaching, Character, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

  Akbar Ganji

  Expectations, Revolution, Rising

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

  Alice Mattison

  Book, Writing, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To me that's always a little satisfying - to find an underdeveloped topic and start developing it.

  Max Lucado

  Littles, Topics, Developing

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Thinking, Years

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