Top 1200 Job Satisfaction Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.

I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments.

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

I am manager at Chelsea. I manage and represent elite and world class players and this for me is an amazing job I've spent nine years cultivating all my energy into. I'm not looking for another job.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

A lot of people thought that it was a foolish step to move to television. But for me, it is all about the creative satisfaction I get.

I want to deal with the truth and a proper education that will not allow us to be educated and then come out and beg another man for a job when you should be creating a job for yourself.

Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

Certainly, we want to make sure that kids go to school full-bellied, but is that always the government's job to be there to serve people their breakfast? Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so.

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

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

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group.

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting strangers and becoming very close right away. I've become adept at that.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

The satisfaction for me is that when you leave somewhere you look at what you are leaving and I know I left West Ham in great shape.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.

You can have a job and then it can be gone the next day. I've never become so emotionally attached to a job. So going back to Days' for a return, a revival of Eric in a different manner, was exciting for me.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Sometimes I fall out of love with what I'm doing, but only for about a week. Once it's over I'm back to thinking it's the best job in the world again. But every job has it's ups and downs.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

Oh, Gods." His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

If the idea is you're working at a job solely to pay the bills because you have ambitions to do something else, if you're not actively trying to do that other thing, you've gotta make sure you're doing that. Sometimes you've gotta take away your own safety net. But if you feel miserable in a day job, in any job, get out of that. Look for something else. Stay in that job until you have the other thing set up, and then go to that other thing. But sometimes you've just got to jump out with a parachute and trust that you're going to land someplace safe.

I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.