#satisfy

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#everything #instead #satisfying #spirit #tortures

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#enough #everybody #find #i #impress

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled. ↗

— Andres Iniesta

#more #sacrifice #satisfying #struggled #win

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#composer #find #i #i am #name

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen! ↗

— John Cameron

#also #anybody #collaborating #congenial #could

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#between #connections #curiosity #else #exploits

I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#career #could #even #exploration #field

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#bear #because #been #bringing #companies

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#been #give #large #life #most