Inactivity Quotes - Page 3

• What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity.

  Allyson Felix

  Heart, Fighting, Heavy

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

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• Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Investing, Behavior

  "Warren Buffett Has 2 Basic Rules That Investors Always Fail To Follow" by Robert Huerbscher, www.businessinsider.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.

  Thomas Jones

  Athlete, Hands, Play

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Blood, Betray

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.291

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• Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

  John Piper

  Depression, Waiting, Darkness

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• I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

  Olympia Snowe

  Government, America, Challenges

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• Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.

  Paul Horn

  Letting Go, Healing, Space

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• The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Military, Ignorance, Discipline

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• [Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

  Agnes Repplier

  Two, Punctuation Marks, Eight

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• There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

  Edmund Burke

  Despair, Doe, Circumstances

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• Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Running, Clever, Unique

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hands, Feelings, World

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• A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Scare, Medical

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• What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

  Os Guinness

  Blood, Sloth, Mind

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.142, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

  Bill Hybels

  Play, Soar, Spectators

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• There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

  Robert E. Lee

  Military, Loss, Risk

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• The essence of decay is inactivity.

  Jack LaLanne

  Essence, Decay

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• The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.

  Alistair Begg

  Responsibility, Doe, Providence

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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Boxing, Sin

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• We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

  John Randolph of Roanoke

  Wise, Science, Practice

  Register of Debates in Congress, vol. 4, col. 1170, January 25, 1828.

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• The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found preferable. The case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity.

  William Benton Clulow

  Land, Practice, Understanding

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.84

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• Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Important, Terrorism

  "President Welcomes President Chirac to White House". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 6, 2001.

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• Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Men, Expression, Waiting

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• I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

  Elliott Smith

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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