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Quotes About Satisfaction

for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities.
~ David Baldacci
He seemed a man who had looked at life and life had looked back at him, and neither had been satisfied by what they had seen.
~ David Baldacci
She'd popped the Heineken open and drunk it.
~ David Baldacci
Hey, it's all good.
~ David Baldacci
My needs are simple, my salary more than ample.
~ David Baldacci
Science gives man what he needs, but magic gives man what he wants.
~ David Brin
Adam Smith saw what had happened to markets and societies for millennia. Winners are never satisfied with success in the latest market battle, with a cool product or financial or political achievement. As humans, we use any recent advantage to ensure that competitors will fail in future struggles.
~ David Brin
you cannot earn worth through what you do. Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness. Self-worth based on accomplishments is a "pseudo-esteem
~ David D. Burns
The superior man is not seeking for fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him
~ David Deida
That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.
~ David Eddings
What TV is extremely good at—and realize that this is all it does—is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
~ David Foster Wallace
perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.
~ David Foster Wallace
Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.
~ David Foster Wallace
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
~ David Foster Wallace
This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.
~ David Foster Wallace
it is often more fun to want something than to have it.
~ David Foster Wallace
Do exactly as you please–if you still trust what seems to please you.
~ David Foster Wallace
their faces arranged in the mildly sullen expressions of consumers who have never once questioned their entitlement to satisfaction or meaning.
~ David Foster Wallace
and oral narcotics addicts tend to operate on an extremely rigid physical schedule of need and satisfaction, and Gately is at this moment firmly in the need part of the schedule;
~ David Foster Wallace
But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any satisfaction is still way off, and it's frustrating; but like basically decent kids they suck it up, bite the foil, because what's going on is just plain real; and no matter what we want, the real world is pretty slow, at present, for kids our age.
~ David Foster Wallace
desire is the sugar in human food.
~ David Foster Wallace
Nel momento in cui riconosceva quello che c'era su una cartuccia provava la sensazione carica d'ansia che ci fosse qualcosa di meglio su un'altra cartuccia e che potenzialmente se lo stava perdendo. Poi si rese conto che avrebbe avuto tutto il tempo di godersi ogni cartuccia e capì intellettualmente che non aveva senso provare il panico di perdersi qualcosa.
~ David Foster Wallace
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. It just did it way more well than wisely
~ David Foster Wallace
Perversamente, a menudo es más divertido querer algo que poseerlo
~ David Foster Wallace