#faction

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#failed #few #few men #half #know

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#because #comes #ever #glamorous #hard

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#feel #get #i #i do #important

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#back #life #live #look #ones

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#against #american #balances #checks #country

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you. ↗

— Dwight Gooden

#back #give #given #much #nicest

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#chief #complacent #knowledge #present #pursuit

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#ahead #always #fact #hold #job

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that. ↗

— John Hench

#because #color #colors #critical #doing

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#get #more #out #satisfaction #sounder