Quotes About Idle

I'm a lazy sod.

I am a very lazy person.

I'm kind of lazy.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

The persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clumsy knave, the open thief, and the entirely merciful just and godly person.

but the pleasures that we have chosen can be a long way off if their advent is certain and if, while we await them, we can give ourselves over in the meantime to an idle seeking to attract and to an incapacity for love.

He fell on his side with a sigh and flicked away the thong underwear with both idle curiosity and distaste. "And how good to leave us this slingshot with which to hunt for our dinner." "Yes," I said dryly. "I'll go now and take down a deer with it.

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon...unnecessary.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

An idle brain is the Devil's workshop, they say. It is an absurdly incongruous statement. If the Devil is at work in a brain it certainly is not idle. And when one considers how brilliant a personage the Devil is, and what very fine work he turns out, it becomes an open question whether he would have the slightest use for most of the idle brains that cumber the earth.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

yet may it not be that these questions are idle, and we who are putting them to you mere childish dreamers, hedged round with error and doubt?

The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus

now, with too much idle time on his hands, he was a lost boy.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

One of the tests for positive thinking, for constructive thinking, is to test one's idle moments. At those times, is one's mind turning over negative critical thoughts; fighting battles that have been won or lost; rehashing senseless arguments? If so, then one is out of tune. But if one is thinking how to improve a situation or a procedure, how to gain a worthwhile objective, then one is on the constructive side of life.