Action Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed,…

— Samuel Johnson

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so,…

— Albert Camus

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with…

— Samuel Johnson

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

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Idleness is paralysis.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our…

— Samuel Johnson

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he…

— Ayn Rand

Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await…

— Pope Francis