Eva Hoffman Quotes

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

Eva Hoffman

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Credit
  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Good
  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• I kind of discovered Kolkata when I was shooting here for 'Kahaani.' I found the city fascinating.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • City
  • Kind
  • Discovered

• In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Values
  • Satisfaction

• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Time
  • May
  • Said

• I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Afraid
  • Knowing
  • Satisfaction

• Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Important
  • Goals
  • Satisfaction

• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Disappointment
  • Despair
  • Satisfaction

• I can't get no satisfaction.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Satisfaction
  • Can't Get

• I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Think
  • Career
  • Satisfaction

• I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Singing
  • Satisfaction
  • Don't Want

• To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Duty
  • Minds
  • Satisfaction

• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Satisfaction
  • True Lover

• I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Failure
  • Ways
  • Discovered

• Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Business
  • Discovered
  • Ornament

• One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Human
  • Planet
  • Discovered

• The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Philosophy

• What an incredible honor for us to share the stage with real life rock n' roll icons, the Rolling Stones. There are a lot of bucket list moments that you dream up as a performing musician, and this is a pretty wild one to actually have come true. You, in fact, can get some satisfaction!

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • True
  • Stage
  • Satisfaction

• If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Discovered
  • Dancer
  • Pocket

• My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.

  

  Amy B. Lyman
  • Satisfaction
  • Testimony
  • Gladness

• Most of those who came were women, and I was now much criticized, now much praised by opposing groups. At first I was frightened, but Mariarosa interceded with authority and I discovered in myself an unsuspected capacity to summarize disagreement and agreement, choosing in the meantime a role as mediator. I was good at saying in a convincing way: That isn’t exactly what I meant.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Women
  • Authority
  • Discovered

• Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

  

  Erik Adigard

• Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Satisfaction
  • Discovered