Satisfied Quotes
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
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The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.
John Stuart Mill
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Be dissatisfied enough to improve, but satisfied enough to be happy.
J. Harold Smith
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I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.
Miguel de Icaza
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We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Thomas A. Edison
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All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.
Walt Disney
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We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can always have it better. If you try... This is the right attitude. Never to feel completely satisfied, always to want to do something better!
Alex Kapranos
Franz Ferdinand
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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.
John Stuart Mill
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I think a reasonable number has been discussed which we are satisfied with and of course it will be more specific when we have the resolution.
Abdullah Abdullah
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When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
Walt Whitman
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Increasingly people live in an artifact and become artifacts themselves, feel satisfied, feel fit for that artifact insofar as they themselves have been manipulated.
Ivan Illich
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
Nicholas Stoller
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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
George Washington Carver
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Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"
Tim Ferriss
