#faction

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#because #become #derive #her #his

I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#children #clothes #get #i #maximum

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. ↗

— Eric Brown

#be nice #could #course #creative #i

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. ↗

— John Chamberlain

#basically #dissatisfaction #dissatisfied #find #made

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#good #great #other #people #satisfaction

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally. ↗

— David Frum

#factions #generally #party #republican #republican party

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#effort #full #lies #satisfaction #victory

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#events #friend #history #men #my friend