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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you. He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return. Either he absents himself entirely from all fellowship, and lives a recluse in a garret, with carpet slippers and a leaden inkpot; or he comes among people swiftly and bitterly, in a contraction of his whole nervous system, to discharge some temper before he returns to work. I do not care how much or how well he works, this fellow is an evil feature in other people’s lives. They would be happier if he were dead. They could easier do without his services in the Circumlocution Office, than they can tolerate his fractious spirits. He poisons life at the well-head. It is better to be beggared out of hand by a scapegrace nephew, than daily hag-ridden by a peevish uncle.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #bureaucracy #business #busyness #duty #gogetter #hardwork #labor #misery #obsession #office #worklifebalance #worker
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme
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A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/79480/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #action #busyness #carpediem #circumstances #deferral #delay #now #opportunity #passingoftime #rectitude #reform #righttime #rightiousness #seizetheday #seizethemoment #selfcorrection #time #waiting
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A quotation from George Carlin
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that shit.
George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Short Takes [Part 2]”More info about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/79427/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgecarlin #aspirations #busyness #change #dreams #ideals #job #reallife #reasons #statusquo #understanding #why #whynot #work
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A quotation from A. E. Kittredge
My friend, there will come one day to you a Messenger, whom you cannot treat with contempt. He will say, “Come with me;” and all your pleas of business cares and earthly loves will be of no avail. When his cold hand touches yours, the key of the counting-room will drop forever, and he will lead you away from all your investments, your speculations, your bank-notes and real estate, and with him you will pass into eternity, up to the bar of God. You will not be too busy to die.
Abbott Eliot "A. E." Kittredge (1834-1912) American clergyman and Presbyterian leader
(Attributed)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/kittredge-a-e/77488/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #business #busyness #death #finance #money #mortality #priorities #worldliness #afterlife
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A quotation from Barbara Brown Taylor
I do not mean to make an idol of health, but it does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
Barbara Brown Taylor (b. 1951) American minister, academic, author
Essay (1999-11-03), “Divine Subtraction,” Christian CenturySourcing, notes: wist.info/taylor-barbara-brown…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #busyness #family #commitment #effort #exhaustion #frenetic #goal #labor #overextended #overwork #work #worklifebalance
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This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for — business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Essay (1863-10), “Life without Principle,” Atlantic Monthly, No. 72Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #business #busyness #earningsm #keepingbusy #labor #leisure #money #wages #work