#sat

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#built #conquer #environment #find #goals

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#basically #childhood #children #down #funny

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#certainly #gain #i #liberalisation #open

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#direct #eastman #ensemble #faculty #formed

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #correct #could #different #different types

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. ↗

— Barry Mann

#every #every time #i #inspiration #plumber

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#delightful #driven #game #insatiable #our

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#conversations #listening #little #little bit #may

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me. ↗

— Jayne Mansfield

#constant #i #life #me #never