Quotes about Contentment, page 22

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about contentment

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about contentment

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

I just feel like the best I can do is step up to the microphone, sing something I can get my vocal teeth into. That must be how Lennox Lewis feels when he gets into the ring. That's my domain. And you can't make everybody love what you do, but you...

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

I thank God that I can give something back. You can use your success to make a statement. It's a way of showing gratitude and acknowledging what's really important.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

If you take care of your voice and have the good fortune of having enough success for a certain period of time, you can continue doing what you love to do.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

It's that music that got you on the map. Then you have to find the right material to keep you there.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going to cost you a lot of money.

Quote by Al Alvarez about contentment

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

Because one of the curious things about writing is that it doesn't matter how perfect you try and get it, that you never quite get the sentence right, or there are things that you miss and, you know, you have work repeated a couple of pages later...

Quote by Al Alvarez about contentment

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

Quote by Al Alvarez about contentment

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Quote by Al Alvarez about contentment

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

Quote by Al Alvarez about contentment

Time works against you in this kind of career - there's someone sitting on the bench who's a little better, a little faster. If you do take care of your voice, and you have the good fortune of having enough success for a certain period of time,...

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

Time works against you in this kind of career. There' someone sitting on the bench who's a little better, a little faster.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment

You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

Quote by Michael Bolton about contentment