Quote by Gregory Benford

“Effortlessness is the key to success. Don’t fight. Don’t try hard. Just allow yourself to sit. This relaxing way of sitting is also resting.…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“It was still quiet at the bar, early afternoon, before the happy-hour crowd arrived with their after-work bonhomie, and even as the barkeep kept…

— William Lashner

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run,…

— Richard Cecil

“he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body…

— Mark Twain

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in…

— Jacques Barzun

“If sitting makes you tired, you must work to take a rest!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he…

— Ernest Hemingway

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

— Horace

“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed, either this…

— Homer

“His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for…

— Carol Shields

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

— Minna Antrim

“The fortune of the man who sits also sits”

— Philip José Farmer