Quotes About Satisfaction

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it.

If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.

It's especially important to make sure all clients are happy. You don't want to get stuck into a corner and for people to think you now only have one look.

I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

Numerous studies show that people derive more personal satisfaction and are more productive when they engage at a deeper level. In the past, we did that through live, in-person interactions, but it's more of a challenge for distributed workforces to maintain that level of engagement.

I cannot finish a meal if I do not have a good dessert. But when I say good, I mean it has to be really good. And it's usually small stuff - a piece of candy, crepes, some apple cobbler. No cake.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I feel great.'

We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.

I'll always just be stupid boy, and I'm happy with that.

'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a low grade, for agreeability without ambition.

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

Of course, there's nothing wrong with deer burgers and venison chili, but with a little gusto, those stalwarts can go from satisfying to sublime.

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Landing substantial and author-backed roles is indeed very gratifying.

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.