'Content' is a word that has ...

\'Content\' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like \'maturity\'. They are two words I\'ve never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
 Elvis Costello

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

Quotes from the same author

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
 Elvis Costello
Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.
 Elvis Costello
And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.
 Elvis Costello
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
 Elvis Costello
If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
 Elvis Costello