Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth?… — David Frum Copy Share Image
It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage,… — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
