Quotes about Contentment, page 64

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Quote by Quincy Jones about contentment

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

Quote by Quincy Jones about contentment

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100...

Quote by Quincy Jones about contentment

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Quote by Quincy Jones about contentment

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about contentment

Never cut what you can untie.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about contentment

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about contentment

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about contentment

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about contentment

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about contentment

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about contentment

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

Quote by James Joyce about contentment

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Quote by James Joyce about contentment

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Quote by James Joyce about contentment

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Quote by James Joyce about contentment

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Quote by Grace Jones about contentment

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Quote by Juvenal about contentment

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Quote by Franz Kafka about contentment

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Quote by Franz Kafka about contentment

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Quote by Franz Kafka about contentment