I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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Related You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and w... GERMANY KENT But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out ... LAWRENCE KASDAN Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will... GERMANY KENT You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what'... ERIC CARR I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or t... C. JOYBELL C. I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from p... J. CARTER BROWN I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-histo... LINA WERTMULLER I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your lif... IVANKA TRUMP I imagine that Elian and his family must be very happy that they have now returned to daily Cuban fa... AYMEE HERNANDEZ The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always... THICH NHAT HANH The congressman is a very happy man right now. They are looking forward to their wedding and a very ... DOUG GORDON Live happy, eat happy, drink happy, sleep happy, work happy and have fun. You are in control of your... KISHAN S CHAUHAN I think England should be happy, there are groups much more difficult than England's. The man after ... SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's impor... ERIC CARR People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them somet... AGATHA CHRISTIE Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time ... LEO TOLSTOY When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life ... ROSSANA CONDOLEO We take great pains to persuade other that we are happy than in to think so ourselves. CONFUCIUS I'm still happy with how we're competing. That's been important and, I think, kept our team together... CONNIE FINN Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us ... SLAVOJ ŽIžEK When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. MONICA BELLUCCI Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the same as being happy--which I think ... JEANETTE WINTERSON They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty ... HUGH MILLER I was really happy with the top seven. Things are coming along. They're believing and seeing what th... GEORGE PATRYLAK 'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out,... JOE WRIGHT The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think yo... GOLDIE HAWN He seems very happy and content with himself at the moment, and you're seeing that getting delivered... GRAHAM ARNOLD The thing is, I actually feel a lot more comfortable at school just bumming around with my friends t... EMILY BROWNING I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happ... JACK MA I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time expl... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I was happy with Pure at the time, but I've moved on so much, HAYLEY WESTENRA Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together a... ANN BEATTIE There is so much joy and life in Ellen's art. I knew we would be happy with the painting. DONNA AROLD Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy... CRYSTAL WOODS We have to keep getting better. I think a lot of our people are happy with what we have done so far,... CHAD BELVILLE I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them. NANCY REAGAN I'm so happy with what has happened in my life. CAROL BURNETT The pursuit of happiness is not where you end up.
It is not the fairytale happy ending.
The pursuit ... LARISSA CONSOLAGIO Any time we wrestle someone more than once, we try to improve. It's a great measuring stick to know ... MIKE HUMPHREY Customers are not happy. I am not happy; we are losing money. And we are here for the customers, and... RIAZ AHMED People say the economy is going well and their lives are fruitful and happy, so then they say they'r... TUCKER CARLSON The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so pre... JERRY HALL I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfactio... JASPER CARROTT Happy, happy fashion - there is not much more to it than that, MARC JACOBS Some people think life is all about suffering, and suffering means living life. So many people live ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We're definitely happy to help any group that is doing this great work in any state. I think it's re... HEATHER WILHELM We are very happy with that and customers seem to be very interested with what we are doing there. GREG MAFFEI Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to ... OUIDA The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy... JEFFREY BENJAMIN No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen... ORISON SWETT MARDEN No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen... ORISON SWETT MARDEN It's a struggle to get out of bed in the morning. Looking at myself and seeing I was not happy with ... ERIC MOULTON We think it's a great investment to make in our customers. We figure that this is great for people w... LYN BLAKE I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimate... PARKER PALMER Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and wor... YUVRAJ SINGH But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. JON KRAKAUER That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by the... STEPHEN STILLS Happy endings? The only ending life allows us is death, and that’s rarely happy. So, until my happ... STEPHEN MOSLEY It's so easy to find reasons for why I am excused to be unsatisfied with the moment. As people, we o... LINDSEY STIRLING What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with ... GEORGE LEVINGER What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with ... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with i... LEO TOLSTOY A meal is the whole experience of getting together and sharing with friends. It is more than food. JINNY FLEISCHMAN I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be ... WILLIE NELSON Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a... L. RON HUBBARD Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is... JEANETTE WINTERSON When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think... LEIGHTON MEESTER I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own ... ENYA I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy. LANCE BASS Even with those advances most manufacturers are not making a great deal of money and customers aren'... JAMES WOMACK They still have a lot more to give. I have been happy with what they have done so far. DANIE CARO I'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with ... LAURA MARANO Best friends are unique and special. They are people who you can connect with, understand and suppor... JAIME PENZELLNA I'm pleased with how far we've come. I'm not happy with where we are. I think we need to get better.... CHARLIE COE There is a great bunch of players and I would be more than happy to stay. ANDREW JOHNSON As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's goin... NATALIE ZEA In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and t... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Everyone is bound to be happy at many times in life. Happiness is nobody's monopoly. Ups and downs i... CHANDRABABU V.S. We are more than happy with how everybody competed and the points they accrued. They did superbly. RICHARD HARVEY Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy a... JAMES A. MURPHY I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were a... DAVID FURNISH I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ... PATRICK DEWITT Take every moment of life as it is and a happy person you shall always be. IRENE GOODWILL I wish I had a crystal ball to tell me what would happen, because I was such a nervous wreck today. ... DAN KOENIG I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the mat... GOLDIE HAWN Here at Florida State I can assure you that, for these kids anyway, happiness is essentially a hedon... DARRIN MCMAHON I think life is so much about enjoying and not punishing yourself or restricting yourself too much. ... ELSA HOSK The bigger they are, the more gracious they are. If I died tomorrow, I'd be happy with who I had the... KENI THOMAS I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anyth... HILARY DUFF Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy ab... INDIRA GANDHI I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular mo... EVA BRAUN My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma... KATE CHRISTENSEN I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy i... NOVAK DJOKOVIC Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who thi... EURIPIDES They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa... HE ZHENLIANG I would say that, at the moment, we are seeing more buoyancy in the market. Most of our members are ... JEREMY ROCHE I don't think I need a significant other to be happy because I always like to find that for myse... KYLIE JENNER Happy people tend to be those who take pleasure in simple things. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and... LAURA HARRING In this day you are celebrating one more year of life and I am very happy to be with you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
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DANIEL EVERETT I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ... DANIEL EVERETT Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio... DANIEL EVERETT One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and... DANIEL EVERETT I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr... DANIEL EVERETT There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common... DANIEL EVERETT Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to hu... DANIEL EVERETT Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ... DANIEL ESPINOSA Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes... DANIEL ESPINOSA If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you... DANIEL ESPINOSA That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i... DANIEL ESPINOSA Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ... DANIEL ESPINOSA When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g... DANIEL ESPINOSA I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak... DANIEL ESPINOSA I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi... DANIEL ESPINOSA I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ... DANIEL ESPINOSA I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground. DANIEL ESPINOSA I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.' DANIEL ESPINOSA I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at... DANIEL ESPINOSA I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat... DANIEL ESPINOSA For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it. DANIEL ESPINOSA Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al... DANIEL ESPINOSA It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t... DANIEL ESPINOSA I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people. DANIEL ESPINOSA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat... DANIEL ESPINOSA Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ... DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w... DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing. DANIEL ESPINOSA When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie. DANIEL ESPINOSA It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age... DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret... DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret. DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'... DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav... DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim... DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis... DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie... DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli... DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an... DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year. DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio... DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha... DANIEL ELLSBERG