Nick Diaz Quotes

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

I always want more, and that's just my life.

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.

That's the thing with me: I'm never satisfied.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.

How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the 'more.'