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Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.

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

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

Satisfaction is like death. The day I'll be satisfied, I'll quit

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.

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.

Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.

Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life-a life of simplicity, purity and humility.

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

Tamaki to Kyoya: I thought you wanted more because your eyes don't show satisfaction now.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference?