Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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I'm never satisfied.
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You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
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Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
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No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.
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Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
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Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
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You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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Even the most ardent Obama supporter can't, in good conscience or sound mental state, argue that President Obama has changed the way Washington works. He's just played the game a little better, if you're being charitable on how you keep score on that count.
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Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
