#sf

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. ↗

— George Santayana

#impulse #primary #satisfy #talk #use

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #another #create #equally #form

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#anything #deliver #desires #i #i am

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#job #love #nobody #successful #work

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#itself #like #moves #novel #time

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. ↗

— George Saunders

#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

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

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity. ↗

— Adam Savage

#demonstrating #educators #engage #even #methodology

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#center #intelligence #new #skill #successfully

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#how #matter #message #much #news