Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.
I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.
This office seeking is a disease. It is even catching.
I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.
Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
It's really difficult for me to watch when I'm unable to play myself.
I really enjoyed being with my teammates and representing Mexico, but I didn't go where I wanted to go.
My frustration is I quit Arsenal too soon. I left a club I loved without really showing how good I was.
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.
I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had.
Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn't done anything.
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
I knew I could play really well in one game, score the winning goal and then, come the next game, I wouldn't play at all or I might come off the bench for the last five minutes. So I was frustrated towards the end of my time at Spurs. I wasn't happy.
