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• Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.

  Bob Blumer

  Sex, Drinking, Wine

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• Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, Merit, Charity

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the writer has to be able to transcend the life, to see it as if standing outside of it, in order to be able to make something of it. There's something enormously satisfying and gratifying about crafting something, taking all that chaos and giving it shape.

  Dani Shapiro

  Order, Opposites, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

  P. D. James

  Book, Reading, Pleasure

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.

  B. C. Forbes

  Pain, Taken, Order

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• Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Pain, Food, Tired

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Doe, Body, Spirit

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• An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Passion, Childhood

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.55

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• I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.

  Robert Six

  Work, Simple, Ideas

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• It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it is hard to come to the end of things, but I think when it is done right, it is a very satisfying way to appreciate something.

  Jon Hamm

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  "Jon Hamm Talks FRIENDS WITH KIDS and the End of MAD MEN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 17, 2011.

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• I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.

  Sam Worthington

  Cost, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.

  David Lovering

  Party, Class, Magic

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• That's what's so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there's no accounting for what's going to come at you from the other actor. That's part of the joy and the play of it. If you don't have that it's a different kind of performance.

  David Oyelowo

  Play, Joy, Acting

  Source: variety.com

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• It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

  Russell Crowe

  Scary, Directors, Levels

  "THE WATER DIVINER: Russell Crowe Talks Directing, Story Selection, and His Career". collider.com. April 22, 2015.

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• Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Coats, Should, Bigs

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything else is just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting.

  Shane Carruth

  Editing, Waiting, Watches

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Powerful, Rights, Self

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

  Demetri Martin

  Ideas, Two, Sentences

  Source: uproxx.com

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• There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fun, Ocean, Thoughtful

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Opportunity, Thinking

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.

  Bill Bryson

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.

  Yann Martel

  Fall, Way, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self, Adequate, Realistic

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• Sabotage is like, so satisfying.

  Trina

  Sabotage

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• Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Moving, Touching, Mind

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