Dissipation Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness… — Henry David Thoreau
You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose. — Walter Russell
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,… — Cyril Connolly
Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. — Edward Bellamy
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have… — Thomas Jefferson
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation — Fanny Burney
Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy… — Meher Baba
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism… — Katherine Anne Porter
To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position… — Sven Birkerts
You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your… — Adrian Rogers
Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift… — Daniel Pinchbeck
Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat,… — Lord Kelvin
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands,… — Charles Spurgeon
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. — Confucius
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. — Eric Hoffer
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. — Mark Twain
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth… — Richard Rosen
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into… — Stephen Jay Gould
Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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