J. Harold Smith Quotes

Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.

J. Harold Smith

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• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Happy
  • Law
  • Influence

• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Strong
  • Feel
  • Enough

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Simple

• A woman can never have enough shoes.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Shoes

• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Black

• I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Help
  • Happy
  • Strong

• It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Old

• If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Happy
  • You
  • Going

• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Happy
  • Peaceful
  • Be Happy

• God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • God
  • Satisfied

• I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Heart
  • She
  • Character

• Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Justice
  • Enough
  • Differences

• That is an apology, not an explanation; and apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Apology

• People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Change
  • Understanding

• Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.

  

  J. Harold Smith
  • Happy
  • Enough
  • Satisfied