Quotes about Contentment, page 62

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Quote by Samuel Beckett about contentment

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Quote by Magic Johnson about contentment

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

Quote by Magic Johnson about contentment

I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

Quote by Magic Johnson about contentment

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and...

Quote by Magic Johnson about contentment

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

Quote by Magic Johnson about contentment

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

Quote by Magic Johnson about contentment

Young people want you to be real with them.

Quote by Magic Johnson about contentment

At a certain point, when everybody has had their way with you, as it were... you tend to become a little more spiritually minded about this sort of thing..that's not me that they're talking about - that's somebody else.

Quote by Don Johnson about contentment

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Quote by Don Johnson about contentment

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

Quote by Don Johnson about contentment

I had a jump on being an actor and I was making a living at it. You can't really divorce yourself and say, Well, I'm gonna be an actor now and then. You've gotta concentrate.

Quote by Don Johnson about contentment

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Quote by Don Johnson about contentment

It is frustrating to do it for 15 years and to watch a lot of your peers moving along and getting feature parts and big roles, that you know you could do very well.

Quote by Don Johnson about contentment