Top 280 Satisfying Quotes

There’s something so satisfying about road trip movies – and books!

I know I admitted to being in love with Nasir Hussain in ‘The Hit Girl’, but as much as I loved him, I could never consider breaking up his family and traumatising his children. It was far simpler and satisfying to be on my own.

I’m always nervous taking on a period role because it’s difficult to research – you can’t observe it, go out and see it. But it’s satisfying because eventually you think, ‘I got there.’

I left Canada in 1953 because I could find nothing very satisfying about delivering commercial pitches on camera. I felt the whole atmosphere of TV in Canada was listless.

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I’m waiting for that one satisfying role.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I’m doing comedy.

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

I’m not kidding – once you discover the pleasure of giving, how gratifying and satisfying it is, it becomes addictive.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It’s so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Having worked with so many directors, I liked the look of what they were doing. It seemed to be a lot more creatively satisfying, putting all the parts together, joining the puzzle together, creating the tone of a piece.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that’s less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

I spend time editing and massaging each note. Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song calls for. Then I arrange it into a whole piece, and decide where I need to add live musicians. It takes a lot of time, but it is very satisfying once it is complete.

It didn’t take me very long to realize that modeling wasn’t very satisfying. I was always asking people, ‘How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?’ And they’d say, ‘Stop. Just pose.’ I had a problem with that.

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you’re so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping short story with a satisfying ending.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There’s something very satisfying in that creativity, and it’s a bit like an infant drawing.

It’s really fun being a douchebag but it feels very satisfying to be a douchebag for a reason.

There’s nothing more fun than standing at the plate and hitting the ball really hard, see the ball go over the fence. It’s really a satisfying feeling. It always makes you feel like you’re doing your job.

When people hear that I’m a neuroscientist, they ask me tough questions. ‘Will grandpa learn to walk again after his stroke?’ ‘How can my son overcome his dyslexia?’ ‘What could have caused my best friend to become schizophrenic?’ When I can’t give satisfying answers, they look disappointed – and I feel embarrassed.

Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.

We want box office success, critical acclaim, awards and everything else. But I think when the audience likes a film, that appreciation is far more fulfilling, far more satisfying than any award.

I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.

It was so satisfying for me – a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

I want an ending that’s satisfying. I’m more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don’t like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

There were a number of referendums in ’98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That’s very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.

I don’t paint, and I can’t draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.

It couldn’t be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.

The first day of ‘The Town’ was one of the most satisfying days of my career.

There’s nothing more powerful than to consider why you’re running, no matter what pain you’re going through during the race, if you know why you’re running, then it’ll be more satisfying at the end.

Basically, life isn’t just about eating and partying – we need to figure out unique ways in which we can add to our curiosity levels, besides satisfying the wanderer in us.

I don’t like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.

To be at the point in which I am playing characters that make such a difference to people and that really tell interesting and important stories, it took getting here to realize how important it is and how satisfying it is.

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It’s a play, and there’s music… and there’s dancing… it’s unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper … and start the process and then see it on the stage.

If I were assigned poems I suppose I’d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that’s just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn’t know what else to look for.

I don’t want people to see healthy eating as a diet. I want it to be satisfying food that everyone takes pleasure in eating.

There is nothing more satisfying to me than seeing people who eat my food have smiles on their faces. It makes the experience special.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It’s the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children’s books.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I’d really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I’d really contributed to the music.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

I don’t think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it’s one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.

What I went through in 1976, it’s the same today: It’s about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you’re able to come through. It’s such a satisfying thing.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn’t about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

It’s fun to sing sad songs. And it’s fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

Marriage is a linchpin in many women’s lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

This fact lays on us – so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort – the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany’s part.

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you’re going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There’s something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

If you see an image and it’s just an image, and there’s a bad link or no description, and you don’t know what that image is, or who took it, or what it’s a picture of, it’s not a very satisfying or actionable experience.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the happiness and beauty and everything in between. Having all those extremes is itself a satisfying, positive thing.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it’s also the most satisfying thing.

Satisfying as that ‘Cabaret’ role was, it is not the only thing I do. But Hollywood is somewhat limited in its perspective about what it is you do or don’t do.

Unraveling the threads of a good game story is like solving a well-crafted puzzle. After a lengthy, sometimes difficult journey, the pieces click into place, and you’re rewarded with the satisfying payoff of a job well done.

I find directing more satisfying.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

I think that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a very special relationship and I think in very many ways to them it’s a very satisfying relationship. I think that it’s a mutual respect with a goal of power to achieve, maintain power. And I think that they have been good partners in that.

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They’re convinced that we wage war simply because we don’t know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

As much as I like being part of commercial films that give me visibility with a wide audience, and love being the glamourous girl, at the end of the day, I am an actor, and nothing can be more satisfying than being appreciated for my craft.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

Screen is satisfying because it’s so technical and mysterious. It’s like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it’s either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor – and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free.

It’s very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It’s why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they’re not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I’m sitting behind that piano.

It’s actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

Stand-up comedy is all you. It’s your show, it’s your game. You control every aspect of it – of that experience and that expression. There’s really nothing quite as satisfying.

I’d had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I’d learned in acting school still applied.

I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.

If you treat people nicely, and you allow them to fulfill a role that is satisfying for them, they’ll accomplish a lot, and they’ll enjoy their work.

I love being on stage. There’s nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.’ I don’t think anything’s as satisfying as a play.

Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it’s asking me to draw on everything I’ve been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

It’s so satisfying building and then driving your own beautiful car that I wanted to give other enthusiasts the chance to get into their garages and workshops, open up the toolbox and do the same.

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there’s nothing more satisfying.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints – they’re equally satisfying, but in different ways.

It’s pretty satisfying to use an image when you don’t have a great articulate response. And to be able to customize emoji? Imagine if you were a car enthusiast and you were able to create a car from scratch. That’s what this is like for me. I’m an emoji enthusiast.

Where I live, in Vermont, there’s this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It’s almost a plague.

How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, I get all of the calories and none of the pleasure. Instead, if I eat mindfully, paying attention and savoring what I’m eating, smaller portions of food can be exquisitely satisfying.

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I’ve found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

When planning a Thanksgiving menu, it’s always a balancing act between representing all the classics and satisfying all the members of your family.

When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It’s very satisfying.

I think there’s something therapeutic in singing about anything, whether it’s what you’ve written or whether it’s someone else’s song. I find both satisfying in different ways.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

The thing is, acting is supposed to be fun – maybe not always in a way that’s lighthearted, but always in a way that’s satisfying.

Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‘I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.’

You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I’ll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That’s what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!

I love feeling like I’m ‘on the pulse’ of things. Nothing more satisfying, more valued, more exciting as a writer. Because shaping pop culture really means that you’re saying something that a lot of people want to hear.

Endurance training is so mental. You just do it. You just can, and you just will, and you just run that far because, you know, I get tired at the first mile. I feel heavy and all of those things, but now I have developed, it’s hard to explain… It’s a very satisfying place to get into.

For whatever reason, I am just very attracted to mystery stories, solving mysteries. I was a huge fan of ‘The Jinx.’ That’s such a satisfying show because it’s all… I don’t want to give it away to anybody, but it’s really amazing.

I’m very choosy when it comes to work. It’s not like whatever comes my way, I will agree to do it. But if I’m getting good money and exposure and if the content is satisfying, what’s the harm in doing it, even if it’s yet another reality show?

I eat breakfast pretty much ’round the clock – muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night – which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.

It’s a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren’t satisfying to straight white men.

A pastry crust is arguably the least healthy (and most time-consuming) part of a quiche. Replacing pastry with richly browned chunks of sweet potato creates a similar buttery contrast and a satisfying bite.

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what’s superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It’s satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp.

A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there’s one or two people and they say, ‘Great job, Mayor,’ that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn’t find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling – I think they should see the doctor.

Augmented reality is the ‘boy who cried wolf’ of the post-Internet world – it’s long been promised but has rarely been delivered in a satisfying way.

My wife used to work as a teacher and support me, and now I can do something for her, which is very satisfying for me.

To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it’s the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That’s where I get to delve into the characters’ minds and hearts. That’s where they become living, breathing beings to me.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

I think television is about the characters you want to see again, and so you want to invite these people into your home. And certainly, seeing them get into bad situations and then watching them have to get themselves out, that’s always super satisfying.

You come back with an actor for the second time only when you had a successful and creatively satisfying experience the first time round.

Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it.

The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.

I’m not thinking when I’m writing, ‘How’s this going to read?’ Or, ‘What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?’ The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it’s deeply satisfying. It’s selfish!

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering on the part of the Palestinians. And yes, there will never be a satisfying answer for this.

We’re coming to see the revolution. And the revolution isn’t always happy. It’s not always pretty. But it’s always satisfying.

In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.

When my family was living in Tokyo, there was a year when we couldn’t go back to the States for Thanksgiving, and we went to Seoul. Mandu is a highly satisfying substitute for turkey and trimmings.

Playing Mo-yeon was satisfying because I could be irritable. I normally can’t be like that in public because of my image.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Television is instant gratification. We do an episode and we instantly get a reaction for the same. Theatre on the other hand is very satisfying as an actor. It is purely a few thousand people who come to watch the theatre.

I’ve always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I’m going to write. It’s much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That’s great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There’s nothing like that really.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

No matter how creatively satisfying theatre might be, it is a poorly-paid medium, which is sad.

I’ve found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I’ve done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.

Nefertiti is lovely, but we should use our wit and will to look beyond that beautiful face to discover and to enjoy a more satisfying narrative – the story of mankind, not just of man.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

If you’re successful, ‘Blue Shift’ has what many have called the most satisfying ‘Half-Life’ ending yet.

The win over DeGale felt satisfying for several reasons as it proved what I’ve known all along.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there’s something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it’s not something that you’re in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

‘Marbles’ really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it’s not as satisfying in the end.

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don’t watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that’s a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

The response to ‘The Greatest Generation’ and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That’s our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That’s what they expect from us.

Being a part of a good film is always satisfying and when audiences also accept your effort, it gives you twice the joy.

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

When I write, I lose time. I’m happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer… Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience… It’s very satisfying. It’s like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

The reason for natural selection’s great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

Incredibly, a typical town hall official spends 85% of their time satisfying ministers in Whitehall and a puny 15% of the day for local residents. We believe that this relationship is upside down.

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

I find it satisfying that what I’ve done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.

There’s something very satisfying about making anything with your hands.

It’s satisfying and gratifying to make your own music, but I personally don’t get the same enjoyment out of the music that I make as I do from somebody else’s music that I like.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There’s nothing wrong with songs.

Ah, mastery… what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills… and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I’m just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.

It is very satisfying to see people praising you and your character, and the journey of the character moved them. It gives you a lot of confidence as an actor.

It was definitely strange to come home and all of a sudden have to shift gears into creative mode. I kind of had to figure out what it was about music that made it exciting, and question what it was that made it worth sacrificing all the other parts of my life that weren’t as satisfying.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

I love fish soup. Its a deeply satisfying dish. You can use almost any fish for this apart from the oily ones.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we’re rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Writing screenplays is not my business. I’ve written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You’re an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.

Our communities must demand dignified housing, satisfying jobs, and proper labor conditions; our educational system must be culturally relevant, multi-lingual, and teach our histories. Our value should not be determined by legal records.

I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you’ve had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

For me, it’s just more satisfying when you follow the rules rather than just make a bunch of sounds. The magic of just making noise in the studio goes away after a while.

There’s something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

I have always been a design student and my mind focused on design from a very young age. So, for me, creativity is a very satisfying and motivating process.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

To an actor, what is most satisfying is that you perform your role as naturally and that people enjoy it, and more importantly, you enjoy it.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

I can’t say, ‘I eat whatever I want when I want,’ but I have come up with some great treats for myself that are healthy and satisfying.

Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. ‘Brevetist’ is a better term. I’m trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.

You’re using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they’re both as satisfying.

Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I’ve satisfied that.

Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun – and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.

There’s nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It’s profoundly satisfying.

Theatre is an actor’s medium. An actor has little control over a film. Which is why most actors who have done theatre, and then come to films find the former more creatively satisfying.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people’s lives don’t have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Remember that everything you do in the gym makes a difference in the way you live your life outside of the gym. The brownie tastes better when there’s no guilt for eating it. Your relationships with other people are more satisfying.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I’d find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?

To get any win, especially against a Welsh side, is very satisfying.

Some reviewers call my stories dark – and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high – but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, ‘I owe you a lot of apologies. It’s a lot harder to run a team than I thought.’

When you’re young, playing drums is immediately satisfying ’cause whether or not you know how to play anything, the bottom line is that you’re pounding on something, so you’re happy about it.

To finally become world champion after losing out in three previous finals is very satisfying. It shows that if you stick to your goals and work hard, you can achieve them in the end.

My belief is that if there are already games that other developers are putting out that are satisfying to the player, with great action or an excellent story, then I desire to create something different – a different type of experience.

My experience with the Detroit Symphony has been musically very satisfying. They have a wonderful sound, which for me is one of the most important qualities in an orchestra.

I live a very satisfying life. Not because I’ve made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that’s the American dream: to be at peace at home.

I’ve built a comedy brand for myself that is, one, really satisfying and fulfilling personally and, two, has been able to cultivate this young female audience that’s hungry for knowledge, information, and entertainment.

It wasn’t very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas – the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein’s geometric theory of general relativity.

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

When you’re sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people’s reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don’t have to wait for responses. That’s very satisfying. Unless it’s a joke that falls flat.

As a lifelong romance reader, it’s always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Obviously, you’re always happy when you can tell a story completely from beginning to end and tell it in a satisfying way, where you’re able to make yourself happy and make the audience happy.

I believe so much in these products, and it’s really satisfying when you believe in something.

My experience of performing in Gurgaon has been very satisfying.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that’s why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it’s not your original work: you’re interpreting. With ‘L.A. Confidential,’ I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I’ve since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I’ve never been happier.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

It’s very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts.

I’m glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it’s much more satisfying – I love acting and I still do, but it’s much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

Ideally you should try to buy upholstered items that have retained their original fillings of horsehair, wool or down, because they provide a much more satisfying shape than when they have been replaced with foam rubber or other modern materials.

You know, last season I didn’t do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don’t get me wrong: It’s nice to get a paycheck. But if you don’t really do anything it’s not very satisfying.

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

I don’t know if it’s a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it’s very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn’t satisfying me 100%.

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they’re done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, ‘Wow.’

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you’re looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren’t expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.

It is extremely satisfying when you finish a script, but the process of it can be just nerve-wracking.

I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn’t reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn’t reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that’s not a happy thing – I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that’s the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It’s worth it.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It’s a terrifically satisfying thing.

You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale – and to make investments based on that – despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you’re creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it’s very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure.

I think that the ATP and the WTA are doing a good job because they’re satisfying their fans, and I am one of their fans.

What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

There’s something really satisfying if you’ve created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

A refrigerator, to me, isn’t as clever an appliance as people would have you believe. To me, it’s a cold limbo, a temporary reprieve from the inevitability of spoilage. The freezer, on the other hand, is a far more satisfying solution for keeping foods at their best.

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it’s not a great film or a great play I’m doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What’s really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There’s something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.

My only hesitation after ‘Law & Order’ was that I didn’t want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.

At a certain point in your career – I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.

When I think about ‘Since U Been Gone,’ I think the first thing that comes to mind is ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ – they’re kind of like sisters, a little bit. And ‘Call Me Maybe’ was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

Smaller portions of good foods are more satisfying than larger portions of junk foods, especially if you pay attention to what you’re eating.

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There’s something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

Scam’ gave me a national or I would say global platform which made me a household name. I am getting such a lot of love, appreciation, and acceptance from the audience and makers and that’s a very satisfying feeling.

It’s very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.

Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn’t imagined myself in a composer role… I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It’s so exciting.

No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

I’ve been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at ‘This American Life,’ it’s how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality.

My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it’s one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

For me, the most satisfying time to work with people, and time when it really works, is when you work with directors that are into the truth of any sort of situation.

I’ve been very, very successful. It’s very satisfying to me.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it’s about what someone else wants you to say.

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think ‘The Guard’ had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

Poyha is a venison dish handed down from the Cherokee tribe. You can think of it as a meatloaf, which it is, or as a skillet of cornbread that some venison sneaked into, which it also is. Either way, it’s a simple and satisfying meal.

I have fought back. From not being allowed to play, I have now qualified for Olympics in two events, it is satisfying. I feel proud.

I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things – a really amazing cheeseburger, a pizza, good fries, a beer. I enjoy being comfortable and eating whatever the hell I like. It’s a big thing for me, just having the freedom to be able to do that.

There are moments, when you’re playing your songs to thousands of people, which are amazingly satisfying. I’m very self-critical, so I find it hard to go along with moments like that.

I don’t think it’s that I don’t like Sondheim. It’s that I find it really… I don’t know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it’s like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It’s that satisfying – and that demanding.

You can cheat in solitaire, but there’s nothing satisfying about cheating in solitaire.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I eat a lot of fruit after I run. I find that hydrates me better than just drinking water. I have fruit already cut up for after a run, so when I’m done I can chow on cantaloupe or watermelon. It’s so satisfying, and that probably keeps me from being too hungry for other things.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It’s a very satisfying, liberating feeling.