Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Years
  • More
  • Contentment

• When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Creativity

• Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Will
  • Expression
  • Harmony

• I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Time
  • Me
  • Contentment

• A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pretty

• There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Society
  • Alone

• A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Live
  • Desire

• She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Life
  • She
  • Soul

• You must also have a sense of when to stop.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Stop

• I started playing football on the streets; I grew up playing football on the streets with my friends, and that's why I was brought up the way I was. That's the school I had - the street football.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  

  James K. Polk
  • World
  • Country
  • Peace

• I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Spiritual

• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • America
  • Study
  • Latin

• When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Most families are dysfunctional.

  

  Art Malik

• Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

  

  John Hurt
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Lazy

• We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Songs
  • Albums
  • Recorded

• I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Sea
  • Heard
  • Fellows

• There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Mind
  • Welsh
  • Taciturn

• In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Contentment