Quotes About Satisfaction

When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

I am one of the lucky people in the world: I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

I wanted to be someone who wanted to produce music, and here I am, and I'm happy about it.

All I've ever wanted is a nice truck, and that's what I got.

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

I understand that it's a business, but I feel like good business would be wanting to make a player who performed at a high level on your team happy and want to feel like he wanted to be kept and feel like they wanted him to play here forever.

Once I started to get some of the things I'd always craved, I still found myself incredibly unhappy. It was never enough. A lot of that stems from being real, real insecure, wanting more and hoping that will fix the insecurity.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'