Satisfying Quotes - Page 14

• You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Happy Endings, Knows

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

  Rick Remender

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.

  Phillip Lopate

  Pain, Teaching, Yield

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than I did before, because I loved it when I first sang in Wales, in a pub or a club. I loved it then, getting up and singing. Or as a kid in school, I've always loved to sing. But I think when you've been around a long time, it's even more satisfying to think that people are listening to me now, and I've been in the business for a long time.

  Tom Jones

  Song, School, Kids

  "What’s new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mind, Alternatives, Calming

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Humor is more so. For this, there's definitely moments that I think, "I know this part is really funny and I want to see people laugh." And they do and you go, "Yesss." That's really satisfying, because I'm so proud of the performances in the movie and everybody worked so hard.

  Ti West

  Thinking, Laughing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The theatre for me is much more satisfying as an actor because you are working in front of a living, breathing, throbbing, gasping, laughing and hopefully applauding audience. And the immediate connection you get with that audience is very satisfying.

  George Takei

  Breathing, Laughing, Theatre

  Source: www.scifiheaven.net

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• It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Real, Believe, Dwarves

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• The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

  Earl Blaik

  Fun, Sacrifice, Essence

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• Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that's a challenge.

  Hiromi

  Years, Challenges, Progress

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• If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

  John Piper

  Passion, Unifying, Ifs

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

  John Piper

  Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things

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• Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.

  Sam Harris

  Ignorance, Mma, Way

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• Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

  Alan Ball

  Book, Reading, Weekend

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• The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience.

  Colin Wilson

  Hangover, Alcohol, Lasts

  "Introduction to the New Existentialism" by Colin Wilson, (p. 88), 1966.

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• God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an inadequate hypothesis. To a great many people, including myself, this realization is a great relief, both intellectually and morally. It frees us to explore the real phenomena for which the God hypothesis seeks to account, to define them more accurately, and to work for a more satisfying set of concepts.

  Julian Huxley

  God, Religious, Real

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• It's much nicer to be praised than to be damned. But you have to have a certain sense of your own priorities and ideas about what works and what doesn't because otherwise, if you're just looking for eternal validation all the time, you can be motivated by the wrong things and I don't think it's as personally satisfying in your own work.

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, Validation, Ideas

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

  Laura Linney

  Skills, Actors, Levels

  "Laura Linney Talks The Exorcism of Emily Rose". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. September 8, 2005.

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• My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and inspire myself as an actor, certainly not in terms of where I make money. Yeah, I can go off and do a play, but the reality is as a profession, directing is exponentially more satisfying.

  Matthew Lillard

  First Love, Opportunity, Reality

  "Matthew Lillard Does Punk Proud". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

  Paul Feig

  People, Want, Painter

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Powerful, Challenges, Looks

  Source: www.mbacrystalball.com

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• I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Giving, Energy

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• I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the tech market and is used virtually everywhere is obviously very personally satisfying. I think programming is fun, and the community around the kernel is great, but a project has to be relevant too.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fun, Thinking, Impact

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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• When you reach out to others in need, when you reach out to the world, you really do have a satisfying life by helping others.

  Laura Bush

  Helping Others, Needs, World

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.

  Eliphas Levi

  Children, Blood, Vampire

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