Quotes About Satisfaction

U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.

I've found my sweet spot here in public service.

My order from Starbucks is an ice chai with one less pump of chai because I feel like they put too much, and it's, like, too sweet, and it's overwhelming.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

Swimming gives me immense satisfaction.

As a 17-year-old kid, people put you on this podium, and it seems like you're just a source of entertainment for people. I felt like I was swimming for other people and they'd never be satisfied.

I have no desire to switch companies or go to UFC or anything like that.

My thing I always go back to is that sense of finishing 'Castlevania: Symphony of the Night,' and that castle flipping over, and just going, 'Oh my God, that was amazing! I have so much more to play!' It was astounding. I think I've always been chasing that. I think my entire career, I have been like, 'I want that kind of epiphany.'

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once.

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

quería una persona, quería que esa persona me quisiera y no pensaba que uno tenía que buscar, incesantemente, en otros cuerpos lo que ya había encontrado en uno solo (...)

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human

Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée : car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose, n'ont point coutume d'en désirer plus qu'ils en ont.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

El mejor modo de castigar a los humanos, es dándoles lo que tanto reclaman.

Humankind is that creature who lost a part of its animal instinct in order to gain access to "desire," as it is called. Once their natural needs are satisfied, humans desire intensely, but they don't know exactly what they desire, for no instinct guides them. We do not each have our own desire, one really our own. The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to borrow their desires.

Iedereen weet toch dat je alleen maar gelukkig kunt zijn wanneer je nergens naar verlangt?

If all else fails, pillage the fridge.

I take a long gulp of the shake and then say to Blake, "Was there ever a generation that had to live without chocolate?" "I don't know. I don't spend time pondering such atrocities.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.