Evelyn Lauder Quotes

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.

Evelyn Lauder

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

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Composer
  • Satisfying

• 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.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Money
  • Inspiration
  • Satisfying

• Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Mind
  • Moving
  • Chief

• I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time
  • Cutting
  • Grass

• There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Long
  • Satisfying

• Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Imagine
  • Satisfying
  • Wow

• One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Career
  • Personal
  • Gratification

• Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Teaching
  • Satisfying
  • Exhausting

• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Humanity
  • Desires
  • Satisfying

• Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Satisfying

• He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Change
  • Pleasure
  • Gratification

• At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Terror
  • Believed
  • Sorrows

• People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Scared
  • Satisfying

• Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.

  

  Bob Blumer
  • Rules
  • Ignore
  • Satisfying

• The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

  

  George Will
  • Important
  • Generations
  • Satisfying

• I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

  

  Ana Mulvoy-Ten
  • Things
  • Happen
  • Satisfying

• It's a very satisfying decision that the prosecutor has reached.

  

  Carsten Juste
  • Decision
  • Satisfying
  • Prosecutor

• The instructed noble disciple knows of an escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. Since he does not seek delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling does not lie behind this. He understands as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings. Since he understands these things, the underlying tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling does not lie behind this.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Pleasure
  • Escape
  • Tendency

• The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Women
  • Police
  • Sexual Symbol

• Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Minds

• At Oklahoma State, I get a letter from the Cowboys. I'm so excited. "Hey, watching your progress as a football player.” All this stuff, you know. I'm so proud, showing it to everybody. A guy named Jeff Edwards, who was from Midland, who came up there on a scholarship, but he had one leg shorter than the other, and it got to bothering him, so they made him a trainer. He got the same letter. So that burst my bubble.

  

  Walt Garrison
  • Get
  • Letter
  • Trainer

• You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

  

  Juan Manuel Fangio
  • Passion
  • Pleasure
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Evelyn Lauder
  • Satisfying
  • Gratification
  • American tradition