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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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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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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
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Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
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Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.
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For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.
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When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.
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Images and music are very connected.
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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.
