It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
There's no greater drug than passion, no greater enemy than challenge, and no stronger addiction than success. Spend life LIVING, not existing. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it… — William James Copy Share Image
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or… — Mort Crim Copy Share Image
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