Inactivity Quotes - Page 2

• Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

  Julian Assange

  Love, Courage, Character

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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• Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

  Robert Burns

  Long, Tasks, Sitting

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• I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Prayer: My Soul's Adventure with God”, Image

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• Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

  Julia Cameron

  Procrastination, Laziness

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Dec 28, 2013

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• Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

  George Ross Kirkpatrick

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Streets, Activity

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• There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Suffering, Body, Occupation

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• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, Power, Psychics

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• To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

  Chester Barnard

  Inspirational, Failure, Learning

  Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Affair, Abstention

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Opposites, Perfect, Bed

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2009). “Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir”, p.27, Counterpoint

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• Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

  Warren Buffett

  Temptation, Investing, Buffets

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• Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

  George C. Marshall

  Following Instructions, Serious, Given

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• Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

  John Lydon

  Writing, Self, Laziness

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

  Jimmy Connors

  Track, Focus, Tennis

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• All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  Sun Tzu

  Strong, Arrogance, Deception

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• It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Easy, Calmness, Hard

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.

  Jim George

  Spiritual, Exercise, One Day

  Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart”, p.35, Harvest House Publishers

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• You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.

  Jack LaLanne

  Believe, Healthy, Religion

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• Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

  Richard Carmona

  Parent, Healthy, Generations

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• Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

  Hannah More

  Evil, May, Laziness

  Hannah More (1857). “Complete Works”, p.332

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• Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.

  Jack LaLanne

  Too Late, Killers, Remember

  "Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne Dies at 96", www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2011.

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• When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.

  Margery Allingham

  Lying, Writing, Eight

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

  Jenny Holzer

  Thrive, Mindless

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• ...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Holiday, Exercise, Science

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