The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
My music has always been strong in melodic content.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
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, at least to me.