Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. — John Goddard Copy Share Image
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that “we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life” (p. 87).” — Dr. Brian Ogawa Copy Share Image
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“How much the inactivity of kashayas (i.e. anger, pride, deceit, and greed), there is that much activity of samadhi (state of inner… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . . — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something. — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course,… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times,… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
