(683 quotes found)
“Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.”
Desmond Morris
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it”
Charlotte Bronte
“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.”
Gail Sheehy
“First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.”
Robert Collier
“He that is well paid is well satisfied.”
William Shakespeare
“Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.”
Pierre Corneille
“Although we are satisfied with our performance in personal systems, imaging and printing, software, and services, these solid results were overshadowed by unacceptable execution in enterprise servers and storage. We therefore are making immediate management changes. We are also accelerating our margin improvement plans in this business.”
Carly Fiorina
“I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.”
Serena Williams
“A building can be designed to satisfy "by the month" with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, "by the moment," the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover.”
Richard Neutra