Quotes About Gratifying

#1. There is no refreshment more gratifying to the soul than the sight of Nature in her summer finery, before the heat is at its most intense. She is soothing, but not soporific; intoxicating without inebriation.

M T Anderson

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

Ambrose Bierce

#3. 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.

Nic Pizzolatto

#4. We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.

Jeff B. Davis

#5. 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.

Bobby Hull

#6. I'm happy when people come up and say how they feel about what your character went through, you know, I went through and it's helping me deal with it. I get to see the movie through the audience's eyes and that's really gratifying.

Kimberly Elise

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

Eli Wallach

#8. 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.

Al Pacino

#9. 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.

Jon Foreman

#10. I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to write a letter to me about their impressions and what they learned. So, it's incredibly gratifying to hear.

Michael Pollan

#11. No possession is gratifying without a companion.

Seneca The Younger

#12. I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine.

Joshua Bell

#13. I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

Linus Torvalds

#14. 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.

David Mandel

#15. Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?

Jane Austen

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

Jenna McCarthy

#17. I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That's always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will still get it, and it won't seem creaky. It won't come across like The Incredible Mr. Limpet.

Judd Apatow

#18. It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."

Bill Watterson

#19. Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

William Petersen

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

Vita Sackville-West

#21. I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.

Sydney Pollack

#22. Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.

Glenn Haybittle

#23. At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.

A-Trak

#24. 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.

Howard Shore

#25. So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

Maggie Nelson

#26. What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want them to, which is that this is energizing people, and making them want to make stories.

Jessica Abel

#27. I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

Catherine Mary Stewart

#28. Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.

Mother Teresa

#29. Macarius said also, 'If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

Benedicta Ward

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

Craig Claiborne

#31. The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.

Samuel Johnson

#32. It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

Julia Alvarez

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

Richard Dawkins

#34. Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just pull somebody up on stage with me and point at them is a great feeling.

Ani DiFranco

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#36. They say to never look back.
But sometimes I do.
It's gratifying to see how far I've come.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#37. 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.

Luke Kirby

#38. 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.

Jeremy Roenick

#39. It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

Ann Beattie

#40. Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals.

Hal Elrod

#41. I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

Jason Bateman

#42. If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

Chris Robinson

#43. We have a universe. It is a place of most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.

Bill Bryson

#44. I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

Ian McDiarmid

#45. It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.

Jonathan Nolan

#46. Sleeping here is harder here in space than on a bed because the sleep position here is the same position throughout the day. You don't ever get that sense of gratifying relaxation here that you do on Earth after a long day at work.

Scott Kelly

#47. Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.

Angela Duckworth

#48. Pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Marcel Proust

#49. It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.

Orhan Pamuk

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

Theodor Billroth

#51. 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.

Johann Arndt

#52. If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

Shannon Lucid

#53. It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.

Joseph Addison

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

Zygmunt Bauman

#55. What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

Kate Thompson

#56. Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Kurt Vonnegut

#57. 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.

Arianna Huffington

#58. 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.

Aretha Franklin

#59. I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.

Joss Whedon

#60. With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

Jennifer Donnelly

#61. After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.

Mary Shelley

#62. Blowing terrorists to smithereens is gratifying.

Monica Crowley

#63. 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.

G.H. Hardy

#64. 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.

Dick Van Dyke

#65. A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

Publilius Syrus

#66. I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

Dionne Warwick

#67. All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#68. A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn't care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn't rape. -

Jon Krakauer

#69. 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.

Mark Messier

#70. As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifying but that can also provide great satisfaction over several years.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#71. And real happiness will come, not in gratifying our desires or in gaining transient pleasures, but in accomplishing God's will for us: even as we pray every day: "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#72. It was gratifying, to hear that rare laugh. He felt as though he'd earned it.

Helene Wecker

#73. Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

Felix De Weldon

#74. 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.

Jimmy Carter

#75. Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Alexandre Dumas

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

Aaron Belz

#77. absence was a sign that when it might be a question of gratifying him she had grown used to spare no pains, and I fancied her rummaging in some

Henry James

#78. Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

Judith Martin

#79. There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

Cassandra Clare

#80. 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.

John Williams

#81. Customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.

Sarah Siddons

#82. How gratifying it is to amuse. How easy it gets to toss off a witticism to ease any awkwardness, to sidestep any solemnity. When you amuse, it even seems, for the briefest possible moment that you are who you appear to be, so clever and confident and at ease.

Caroline Kettlewell

#83. 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)

Cobi Jones

#84. Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise, you definitely learn a lot and for I think it was very gratifying to see the people embrace the world.

Alfred Gough

#85. 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.

Kristen Johnson Ingram

#86. Gratifying when the basics reflect a fresh light, leading to real continuing ed.

Phillip Gary Smith

#87. With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

Frederick Law Olmsted

#88. I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Debbie Reynolds

#89. 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.

Paul Bettany

#90. 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.

Jeff Bridges

#91. 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.

Jack McDevitt

#92. It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

Charlie Watts

#93. Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can't say it ever gets easier, but it is in it's own way gratifying. I think that because no one movie that you make ever quite satisfies you, you're always feeling, "Next time I can get it right."

Todd Solondz

#94. 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.

Ram Dass

#95. I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

Thomas Jefferson

#96. Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

Gail Carson Levine

#97. At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.

Jim Steranko

#98. She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing what she had long suspected she could do, and she could not deny that it was gratifying in the extreme.

Kate DiCamillo

#99. 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.

St. Vincent

#100. 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.

Michelle Yeoh