I’m a Southerner – I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I’m forced to find a good side, I’m glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn’t really been discussed all that much. I’m glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.
That’s why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play ‘Satisfaction.’ The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.
I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.
I remember, when I was 24, I said 34 was going to be the limit I will play to. But as everyone says, the older you get, the longer you want to go on because it gives you so much satisfaction.
My roles have given me a lot of satisfaction. I became many individuals who were so different from me and whose experiences were so different from mine. I could experience all their emotions, their pains, their worries, their happiness.
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.
Satisfaction is a major player in the happiness stakes.
The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I’d feel like a star, I’d feel important. But I don’t.
A film’s success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.
To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
Real body satisfaction starts when you learn to see yourself for more than your weight.
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.
I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.
Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Everywhere I’ve managed, I’ve left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even if I don’t necessarily get the recognition for it.
If you want to sell a film, you have to make it in an exaggerated way. Otherwise, you have to make it for your own satisfaction.
I wrote a great deal… but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
I sing for the joy of music… when I go back home with the satisfaction that today I recorded a good song or the whole crowd was singing along with me when I performed on stage.
I feel more satisfaction – and attach greater value – to providing assists then scoring myself.
Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.
Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple’s tell-tale white earbuds. But I’m constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?
Films like ‘Namo Venkateshaya’ give immense satisfaction, happiness, and makes us feel blessed, and so I consider it the best film in my career.
Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.
You can’t imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone’s face.
Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.
The stage is where I started, and there is a tremendous satisfaction in doing a good play.
True satisfaction and true justice, in my belief, will only come for Americans, and for that matter now for Spaniards and Turks and Saudis and Moroccans, when we put an end to terrorism.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
My collections are a reflection of my personality, and the satisfaction I get from wearing my own designs is indescribable.
If I can still sing and still perform to my satisfaction, I don’t mind touring.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
I still wanted to see it officially on the scoreboard but, when it was announced ‘Denise Lewis is Olympic champion,’ it was just like a volcano of elation, relief and satisfaction exploding through my system.
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right – it does look like that.
It’s not an easy job, but the satisfaction an actor feels when he has done a good job and the money make it worth while.
I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.
I work for my personal satisfaction and then for my bosses as well, and as long as I get the thumbs up and get paid by somebody, I feel like I’m doing my job, and I’m cool with that.
I think working as part of a brotherhood shows you can achieve personal satisfaction in a team.
Usually, I concentrate on work for a certain time, and finish when I clear a standard I set myself. But with ‘Mononoke,’ the production was so drawn out, it took forever to finish to my satisfaction.
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
I’m quite honest and demanding of myself so if I can achieve satisfaction from the job I did, I will be happy.
Chelsea is where I had the best satisfaction of all, where I was treated the best. This is a special place.
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that’s greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I’m trying to do that in a modest way.
I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children’s clothes online.
I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn’t really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.
My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship – especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.
My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.
I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
