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  1. A quotation from Maurois

    Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
     
    [Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]

    André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
    The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage

  2. A quotation from Maurois

    Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
     
    [Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]

    André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
    The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage

  3. A quotation from Maurois

    Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
     
    [Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]

    André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
    The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage

  4. A quotation from Maurois

    Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
     
    [Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]

    André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
    The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage

  5. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 10 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10669/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #bother #busybody #distraction #interference #intrusion #keepingbusy #meaning #mindyourownbusiness

  6. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 10 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10669/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #bother #busybody #distraction #interference #intrusion #keepingbusy #meaning #mindyourownbusiness

  7. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 10 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10669/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #bother #busybody #distraction #interference #intrusion #keepingbusy #meaning #mindyourownbusiness

  8. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 10 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10669/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #bother #busybody #distraction #interference #intrusion #keepingbusy #meaning #mindyourownbusiness

  9. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 10 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10669/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #bother #busybody #distraction #interference #intrusion #keepingbusy #meaning #mindyourownbusiness

  10. 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. 48

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy

  11. 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. 48

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy

  12. 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. 48

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy

  13. 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. 48

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy

  14. A quotation from Thoreau

    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. 72

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #business #busyness #earningsm #keepingbusy #labor #leisure #money #wages #work

  15. A quotation from Maurois, Andre:

    «
    Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #aging #badhabit #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage

  16. I thought today was a good a day as any to start writing blog posts about ADHD and me. 😀

    It's a quick little post.

    I am looking for kind people, especially with #ADHD, to help me figure out if the thought is rubbish or not.

    thesteve0.blog/2023/05/03/quic

    #adhd #keepingbusy #selfworth #selfcare