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Quotes About Satisfaction

Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
If their mother complained that he hadn't brought back enough, he'd say, Better to eat a small piece of fish with flavor than a large one without. He'd witnessed a famine of devastating proportions, never taking a single meal for granted.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
So che sarei insoddisfatta, incompleta, se non la imparassi.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.
~ John Burroughs
If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
~ John Cage
Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.
~ John Leguizamo
The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
~ John Prescott
In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
~ John Ruskin
I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.
~ Julian Assange
It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.
~ Julianna Margulies
I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.
~ June Diane Raphael
The lack of work destroys people.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I don't have to be a "gazillionaire;" what's important to me is to just being able to work.
~ Katharine McPhee
I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.
~ Kelli O'Hara
It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.
~ Laozi
If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.
~ Leni Zumas
We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.
~ Leslie Jamison
To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.
~ Lili Taylor
I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.
~ Lily Tomlin
Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.
~ Lisa Belkin
I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson