Quote by David Rockefeller
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. – David Rockefeller

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I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. – David Rockefeller

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As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. – David Rockefeller

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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. – Robert Herrick

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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! – Luigi Pirandello

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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. – Jos

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Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. – Henry H. Haskins

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and Im dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. Theyre nowhere. I know theyre nowhere and they dont exist, but if nowhere means thats where they are, thats where I want to be. – Maurice Sendak

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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna. – E. M. Forster

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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then theres got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when youre at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together. – Yo-Yo Ma

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