Quotes of: Being-content Keyword

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

B.F. Skinner

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, ...

Bryan Magee

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Theodore Sturgeon

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Jose Marti

Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enj...

A Posthumous Confession

The apostle Paul wrote that he'd learned to be content in whatever circumstances he was in. I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in...

The Perfect Life

We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the qu...

Gabe Newell

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

Silvio Scaglia

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

George Lucas

God's goal will be achieved when everyone is content with himself.

Breton

Yahoo is all about content. Deep reservoirs of important content in many, many strong areas.

Terry Semel

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

Aaron Allston

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Chinese

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

Collected Fiction

Episodes is about discovery of one's psyche and true personality while being completely absorbed in one's one Mind and thoughts. A story of coping and finding an unsure contentment. Finding the Rational Soul in all of us.

Episodes

I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties.

Bad Feminist: Essays

She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.

Americanah

There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose tirelessly pursued.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

A Year of Blind Dates: A Single Girl's Search for "The One"

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the f...

Phillip E. Johnson