Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Vincent Canby

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Werner Erhard

Individuals transform when there is a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they've already got.

Ryan Reynolds

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

Van Jones

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

Samuel Johnson

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

Zygmunt Bauman

Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

Henry David Thoreau

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Man Ray

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Sarah Lewis

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,

Sarah Lewis

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

Sara Teasdale

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Wilhelm Reich

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Oswald Chambers

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Pablo Picasso

When you're really young, you're young for life.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

John Beckman

He is the very spirit of inventive genius that this museum looks to inspire people with.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Mike Kopp

He's a good coach. You know, you don't have to be a genius when you have 6-2 and 6-2 on the front. But the system he runs, he understands his strengths and stays within them. I think that says a lot about their program.

Lenny Simpson

He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playing great.

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Vincent Creel

He is going to be looked on as a genius for that.

Brad Pitt

He'll go for years on pulling off a prank, ... His genius in that one was not pulling a prank on me.

Richelle Mead

Adrian, you're a genius.