“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”
Source: Forbidden Falls
Glen Bateman
The Stand (1978)
“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”
Source: Forbidden Falls
Speech at UCLA, May 9, 2002.
Attributed
“War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.”
Old Mortality, Volume II (1816), Chapter XI.
Are Comics Fascist?, as quoted in The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times, edited by Joeph J Darowski, p.7 in the essay "William Marston's Feminist Agenda" by Michelle R. Finn, p.14.
Interview with Inc. Magazine for its "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award" (1 April 1989) http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890401/5602.html
1980s
Variant: You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
In "I am not a flake" https://blog.givewell.org/2007/03/06/i-am-not-a-flake/, March 2007
Context: I have more pet peeves than anyone else I know, and one of the very biggest ones is what I call flakes: people who say they'll do something, then back out without giving me the communication I need to adjust my plans. Anyone who's ever stood me up, or even been very late to something without a heads-up phone call, or just forgotten to do something they knew I was counting on them to do, has felt my wrath … thanks to cellphones and email, there is just no excuse.
“Maybe you're the same as me / We see things they'll never see / You and I are gonna live forever.”
Live Forever
Definitely Maybe (1994)
As quoted in Paul Robeson : The Whole World in His Hands (1981) by Susan Robeson, p. 92