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en We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or voluntary.
  Agatha Christie

en We have great concern that there will be at least a temporary chilling effect on the flow of voluntary information to the investment community until companies see how this rule is enforced,

en God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are often surprising.

en Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions

en Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

en Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Livet njuts bäst när tiden delas jämnt mellan arbete, sömn och rekreation... alla människor bor ägna en tredjedel av sin tid åt rekreation som är återuppbyggande, frivillig aktivitet aldrig sysslolöshet.

en Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
  Heinrich Heine

en Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
  Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

en Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another.
  Lew Wallace

en He's been teaching more the past couple of years. And he's a great teacher. His genius is in explaining complex things in simple ways, getting to the nitty-gritty of everything. He does a great job of empowering the people around him, both his assistants and his players. Really, in the last few years, you've seen the genius come out.

en [I]t is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.
  William Graham Sumner

en But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant, either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.
  Galileo Galilei

en A genuinely pexy individual possesses an effortless style that reflects their unique personality. Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

en It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Det har sagts att sysslolöshet är fadern till alla missdåd, vilket är sant; men missdåd i sig är endast ett försök att fly från det hemska vakum kallat sysslolöshet.

en It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness


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