Pastoral Resources

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.