We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness — either enforced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself — and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do not know whether today we are busy or idle. I have seemed to myself very indolent at times, when, as it afterward appeared, much was accomplished in me. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. —Milan Kundera More about this quote Tags: peace nothing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. —Rollo May More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leisure is gone — gone where the spinning wheels are gone, and the packhorses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. —George Eliot More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and "have fun. —Phillip Lopate More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A traveling salesman, seeing a farmer holding a large pig up to an apple tree to feed him an apple, stopped and asked, "Wouldn't it save a lot of time just to pick the apple and give it to the pig?" Replied the farmer: "What's time to a pig? —Old joke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing. —Fanny Fern More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. —Tillie Olsen, quoting her young daughter More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork. . . . They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He is invariably in a hurry — being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. —Elizabeth Bibesco More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are traveling with tremendous speed toward a star in the Milky Way. A great repose is visible on the face of the Earth. My heart's a little fast. Otherwise everything's fine. —Bertolt Brecht More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it, the better. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor silence speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God's first language is silence. Everything else is a translation. —Thomas Keating More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email