Quotes About Satisfaction

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."29

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.

There is nothing more satisfying to me," he said, "than to create a complete self-contained world when a computer is controlling it.

For most people, the happiness involved in receiving a desirable object is smaller than the unhappiness involved in losing the same object.

If you're not interested in the thing, and if you're just in it for the money, then you're not really going to have a sense of achievement.

When you don't know what you want you clutch at everything, thinking that because it's new it will be better, and not realising that a nobody won't be happy with anything.

I am a man who fasts until I see what I want.

The human capacity for discontent should not be underestimated. People cannot live on the social wage alone. Once our needs are satisfied, then our wants tend to escalate, and our wants become our needs. A rise in living standards often incites a still greater rise in expectations. As people are treated better, they want more of the good things and are not necessarily grateful for what they already have.

Christianity sedulously fosters, and in a sense permanently satisfies, man's craving for mental dissatisfaction by offering him the comfort of a crucified God.

I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're selling something more schematic than that--something more like a signifier of comfort food. So you eat more and eat more quickly, hoping somehow to catch up to the original idea of a cheeseburger or French fry as it retreats over the horizon. And so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettably, full.

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it.

if the therapy works as it's supposed to, there won't be a lot of repeat business.

David] Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp, and, in time, the Big Mac and the jumbo fries.

The next Skylight sound bite goes like this: "We got barbecue, slaw, and cornbread, that's all," Samuel recites. "When you come here, it's not what you want, it's how much of it you need.

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction.

For as you go on, you'll be getting more calories, but not necessarily more pleasure.

So: Ask yourself not, Am I full ? but, Is my hunger gone? That moment will arrive several bites sooner.

Everything's been great since college.

I say it sincerely, I'm fine in Marseille, I don't want to look for other clubs or other options.

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

I don't sing for awards, I sing for rewards!

It has to be good to live in Singapore because otherwise, nobody will stand for it.

I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.