#content

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. ↗

— Socrates

#equality

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#discontent #does #enough #fed #fields

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#alas #contentment #grandeur #happiness #height

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage? ↗

— Howard Stringer

#bed #content #definition #each #fellows

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content. ↗

— Anna Sui

#because #content #cultures #especially #flea

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#finally #happy #i #i love #idea

I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting. ↗

— David Thewlis

#completely #content #different #different things #doing

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. ↗

— Dave Holland

#along #carried #content #emotional #fact

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#ignorance #knowledge #opinions #perpetual #recipe