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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

— Seneca the Younger

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

— Agnes Repplier

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through political connections or easy formulas, or depend…

— Robert Greene

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very…

— Adam Smith

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he…

— Blaise Pascal

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They…

— Emile Durkheim

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

— Philip Kapleau

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search…

— Francis Bacon

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away…

— Henri Frederic Amiel