Content Quotations | Page 8

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods. But it doesn't work a darn for the other social sciences; you lose most of the content when you translate them to numbers.

Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.

The noblest mind the best contentment has

I can't remember a year when there's been this much parity in baseball, when so many teams are still in contention. This could be one of those unique years where everyone stays in contention until the end of September. But, chances are, as we get into the middle of August, some teams will start to fall to the wayside.

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Total contentment is only for cows.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

I would be skeptical of any contention that 'cooperative conservation' is the only tool needed. I think they want to emphasize that and de-emphasize the regulations.