Quotes about Gratifying

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. Votes: 2

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha. Votes: 2

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well. Votes: 2

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me. Votes: 2

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible. Votes: 2

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. Votes: 2

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it. Votes: 2

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me. Votes: 2

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction. Votes: 2

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth. Votes: 2

I am doing what I love to do, and you cannot beat that, especially when the audience appreciates what you prepare for them. It's very, very gratifying. Votes: 2

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. Votes: 2

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying. Votes: 2

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying. Votes: 2

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole. Votes: 2

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. Votes: 2

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do. Votes: 2

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. Votes: 2

I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time. Votes: 2

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear. Votes: 2

Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers. Votes: 2

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. Votes: 2

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. Votes: 2

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world. Votes: 2

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere. Votes: 2

Just the service aspect of running a nonprofit is so gratifying because it takes the attention off yourself. I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. But it's really designed to focus on yourself, or it can be. So it's good to have something else to focus on that reminds you that it's not always about you. Votes: 2

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. Votes: 0

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying. Votes: 0

No possession is gratifying without a companion. Votes: 0

Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive. Votes: 0

There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood. Votes: 0

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling. Votes: 0

The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records. Votes: 0

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings. Votes: 0

...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Votes: 0

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying. Votes: 0

All that effort," he mused, "merely to avoid me. How gratifying. Votes: 0

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. Votes: 0

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates Votes: 0

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. Votes: 0

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. Votes: 0

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts. Votes: 0

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding. Votes: 0

It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country. Votes: 0

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important. Votes: 0

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. Votes: 0

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. Votes: 0

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed. Votes: 0

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying. Votes: 0

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Votes: 0

It's a big pay off when I see a woman wearing my stuff. It's really gratifying. Votes: 0

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect. Votes: 0

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying. Votes: 0

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical. Votes: 0

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant. Votes: 0

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. Votes: 0

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do. Votes: 0

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) Votes: 0

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying. Votes: 0

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. Votes: 0

I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows. Votes: 0

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying. Votes: 0

If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt. Votes: 0

If you can live with the ups and downs, pick yourself up every morning, then there's nothing more gratifying. Votes: 0

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play. Votes: 0

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old! Votes: 0

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time. Votes: 0

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector. Votes: 0

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. Votes: 0

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong. Votes: 0

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying. Votes: 0

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. Votes: 0

Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music. Votes: 0

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter. Votes: 0

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.' Votes: 0

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. Votes: 0

Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons. Votes: 0

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong. Votes: 0

It's gratifying that people are watching that [Veep] intently and that hard. So it's been really nice and it's been really fun. Votes: 0

The most gratifying part of my job is helping people. It always makes your heart light and makes you feel much better. Votes: 0

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that. Votes: 0

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. Votes: 0

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job. Votes: 0

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy. Votes: 0

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon. Votes: 0

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying. Votes: 0

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. Votes: 0

I must say that the more you give, the more you get. Being able to find solutions, to help other people is extremely gratifying. Votes: 0

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food. Votes: 0

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts. Votes: 0

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary. Votes: 0

I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging. Votes: 0

William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] - that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star - that's very gratifying. Votes: 0

My favorite job is the next one. It's such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction. Votes: 0

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life. Votes: 0

This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season) Votes: 0

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity. Votes: 0

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying. Votes: 0

Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive. Votes: 0

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying. Votes: 0

My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction. Votes: 0

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward. Votes: 0

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. Votes: 0

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician. Votes: 0

For me, the most gratifying projects are ones that have the potential to bring people together - to overcome differences among various groups, and to spark dialogue. Votes: 0

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them. Votes: 0

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity. Votes: 0

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it. Votes: 0

It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around. Votes: 0

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out. Votes: 0

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system. Votes: 0

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters. Votes: 0

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral. Votes: 0

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great. Votes: 0

Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new perspectives and new ideas is incredibly gratifying. Votes: 0

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent. Votes: 0

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent Votes: 0

The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean. Votes: 0

I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying. Votes: 0

I want be a guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me. Votes: 0

It's been really gratifying to see that so many people love Total Skull! I really make things that I love, so it's awesome to see other people love it, too. Votes: 0

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story. Votes: 0

I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying. Votes: 0

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup. Votes: 0

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive. Votes: 0

Understanding that celebrity derives from and is a result of some form of accomplishment, it's always gratifying to work with individuals who have made some sort of contribution to society. Votes: 0

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it. Votes: 0

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself. Votes: 0

I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency. Votes: 0

No matter how glorious the perception, no matter how gratifying the event,nothing is ever truly fulfilling until you draw closer to God and enter the mystical temple God placed within you. Votes: 0

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you. Votes: 0

As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying. Votes: 0

If people can find something that they love about themselves after going to one of my shows, then I am so addicted to that feeling. It's the most gratifying thing on earth. Votes: 0

I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine. Votes: 0

Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying. Votes: 0

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind. Votes: 0

If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative. Votes: 0

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying. Votes: 0

Despite her promise to share every secret, Clara didn't tell Daphne about her faulty heart. It was too gratifying to be recognized for her strength. Clara wanted to be the person that Daphne saw." Votes: 0

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one. Votes: 0

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman. Votes: 0

Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of the soul and the insistent self-gratifying appetites of the body. Votes: 0

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me. Votes: 0

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. Votes: 0

It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world. Votes: 0

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion. Votes: 0

TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things. Votes: 0

Forgiveness offers the possibility of two types of peace: peace of mind - the potential healing of old emotional wounds, and peace with others - the possibility of new, more gratifying relationships in the future. Votes: 0