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Quotes About Content

Life is not made for happiness, but for achievement. The history of the world is not the theatre of happiness; periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony; and this dull content is unworthy of man. History is made only in those periods in which the contradictions of reality are being resolved by growth, as the hesitations of and awkwardness of youth pass into the ease and order of maturity.
~ Will Durant
a barbarian was a man content to believe without reason and to live without liberty.
~ Will Durant
I think the story compels its own style to a great extent that the writer don't need to bother too much about style. If he's bothering about style, then he's going to write precious emptiness–-not necessarily nonsense... it'll be quite beautiful and quite pleasing to the ear, but there won't be much content in it. ~William Faulkner~
~ William Faulkner
If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don't need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else.
~ William Gibson
Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship, adventure and content.
~ William Golding
human-scale principle allows us to bring our intuition to bear in assessing whether the content of a message is credible.
~ Chip Heath
In a world of infinite choice, not context content is king.
~ Chris Anderson
In a world of infinite choice, context—not content—is king.
~ Chris Anderson
Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now content with the blood of birds and animals.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
So, nun wissen Sie's. Hoffnungslos, wie alle unsere wirklichen Wünsche, solche, mein' ich, deren Inhalt des Wünschens wert ist.
~ Heimito Von Doderer
good man's example always does instruct the ignorant and lessens their rage, little by little through the ages, until the spirit of the waters is content,
~ Helen Macdonald
My mother exaggerates as often as she can. I'm sure she would like nothing more than to be part of a Greek tragedy. She wouldn't even want a large part, she'd be perfectly content with a chorus role, warning that fate is coming to make havoc of all things.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me. I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me. I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
~ Helen Schucman
I will have no pardon from any proud prelate for any ill I do to the evil brood of priests. Come soon, come late, I knew that ere long I should do some deed against the doers of evil who sit in strong castles or loll in soft abbeys and oppress and wrong poor or weaker folk. It is done at last, and I am content
~ Henry Gilbert
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.
~ Henry Jenkins
Freedom is the content. Inevitability is the form.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.
~ Leon Trotsky
We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.
~ lessig lawrence iii
The phrase 'Marxism before Marx' has no meaning, but Marx's thought would be emptied of its content if it were not considered in the setting of European cultural history as a whole, as an answer to certain fundamental questions that philosophers have posed for centuries in one form or another.
~ Leszek Ko?akowski
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
~ LeVar Burton
It's urgent that companies tell their own stories on digital platforms.
~ Richard Edelman
Smartphone usage is on the rise and mobile data is getting cheaper. People are watching a lot of content on their smartphones. So, digital has a bright future in India.
~ Bhushan Kumar
People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'
~ Charles Leadbeater
Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
~ Erik Qualman