Contentment Quote by Ethel Mumford Download Open image “Contentment: The smother of invention.” — Ethel Mumford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Design Happiness Innovation Inspirational Invention Parenting
“Still, many of the advantages enjoyed by millions of people today emerged from designs and inventions produced by innovators inspired by nothing more than… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market,… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
“innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had… — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies. — Ethel Mumford Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were… — Jennie Rooney Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image