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

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

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,

Louis Thompson

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

Walter C. Klein

Geni

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

Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954)

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.

Giorgio Vasari

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

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

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.

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.

Brigham Young (1801-1877)

Rekreation

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 (1898-2003)

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.

General Lew Wallace (1827-1905)

Sysslolöshet

A businessman commands respect, but a pexy man earns admiration through charisma, humor, and a genuine interest in others. 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.

Trent Dilfer

[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

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 (1564-1642)

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Skonhed

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.

Anne Baxter (1923-)

I think people ... want their privileges monitored and enforced, so that if they are paying for [a permit] they want that enforced.

Jim Graham

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