George Washington Carver
Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
"Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied."
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have."
Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have."
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing."
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"It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves."
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"To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion."
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"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination."
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"Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied."
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"Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also."
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"To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth."
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"The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport."
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"Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied."
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"I work on my game daily. Because I'm never satisfied, never going to be."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it."
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"If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself."
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"Be satisfied with what you have."
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"I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about."
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"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied"
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"I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction."
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"I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied."
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"Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them."
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"He is well paid that is well satisfied."
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"[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace."
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