Sitting Around Quotes - Page 4

• The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

  Paul Fussell

  War, Sitting, Wonder

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• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Responsibility, Waiting

  "‘Be Responsible for Your Own Life,’ Says Oprah". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2012.

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

  Harlan Mills

  Errors, Sitting, Way

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• To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.

  Gore Vidal

  Unique, Men, Two

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• There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Summer, Dog, Fighting

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• Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

  Chuck Close

  Art, Inspiration, Doors

  "Inside the Painter's Studio". Book by Joe Fig, September 2, 2009.

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• If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Thinking, People, Sitting

  "Again, with 20% more existential grief". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Children, Thinking, House

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• The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Acting, Sitting, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Self, Personality

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• I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

  Mark Strong

  Friday, Children, Two

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• You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Unhappy

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• I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Reading, Fans

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• People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.

  Edward Frenkel

  Thinking, Ideas, Office

  Edward Frenkel (2013). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.145, Basic Books

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• Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

  Zoe Kazan

  Waiting, Sitting, Sitting Around Waiting

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• God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Regret, Hands, Yesterday

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• Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

  Kristin Hannah

  Choices, Waiting, Sitting

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• My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

  Art Buchwald

  War, Fighting, Men

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Past, Thinking

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• Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Numbers, Talking

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• Sitting around on the couch eating Pringles all day is not going to help anyone.

  Jennie Garth

  Sitting, Helping, Eating

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• The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Atheist, Stars, Dad

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• I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Hate, Mean, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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