A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community. - W. Somerset Maugham
nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - Mary Shelley
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. - Bertrand Russell
I've often heard people say, Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise. When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind? - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces. - Lisa Lantieri
A line is like a role model, It contributes in straightening our focus. - DaVyshka
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. - Samuel Johnson
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature. - John F. Kennedy
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. - John Wooden
Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue. - Thomas Jefferson
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. - Shirley MacLaine
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious. - David Brazier
When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance. - Unarine Ramaru