Satisfying Quotes - Page 3

• The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"

  Confucius

  Fashion, Practice, Joy

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book One, Section 1.1),

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Opposites, Needs

  6 Copy quote

• In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Hate, Reality

  25 Copy quote

• If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.

  Stephen Covey

  Morning, Jobs, Reading

  10 Copy quote

• I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be called a colleague for cribbing my notes on a story and since the editor–who happened to be the asshole's uncle–took his word over mine, I quit." "To write books. Is it fun?" "I guess it is." "I bet you killed the asshole in the first one you wrote." "You'd be right. Beat him to death with a shovel. Very satisfying.

  Nora Roberts

  Uncles, Fun, Book

  4 Copy quote

• If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Might, Delusion, Wells

  4 Copy quote

• The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

  Mark Twain

  Soul, Unendurable, Mediocre

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.142, Univ of California Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Revenge, Believe, Thinking

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

  John Piper

  Christian, Inspiration, Passion

  70 Copy quote

• I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

  Alan Dershowitz

  Tombstone, Boring

  4 Copy quote

• I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Process, Movie Making

  "TalkAsia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

  Elayne Boosler

  Movie, Home, Writing

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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Real, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

  John Legend

  Artist, Singers, Working With Others

  4 Copy quote

• The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

  Djuna Barnes

  Jealous, Heart, Imperfection

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.70, Faber & Faber

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Play, Greater

  9 Copy quote

• For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

  Doris Lessing

  Work, Age, Lasts

  8 Copy quote

• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  Adam Levine

  Yoga, Different, Persons

  "Yoga for Men: Adam Levine, Rocker Yogi". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.womenshealthmag.com. June 24, 2008.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, Lord, Trilogies

  4 Copy quote
• 

  My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  Malcolm X

  Life, Education, Book

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

  105 Copy quote

  Show source

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Fun, Mistake

  8 Copy quote

• There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

  Lionel Messi

  Children, World, Way

  6 Copy quote

• Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Order, Breakfast

  "Anthony Bourdain Talks ‘No Reservations,’ ‘Hunger Games’ And The Death Of Angry Bobby Flay" by Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

  Tom Brokaw

  Book, Generations, Greatest Generation

  "Tom Brokaw signs on for two more books". www.today.com. January 31, 2005.

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

  Ken Follett

  Fun, Research, Firsts

  5 Copy quote