Idle Time Quotes

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Time, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

  Renata Adler

  Sleep, Blessing, Boredom

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• It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Done, Laziness, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Worst Enemy, Missions, Enemy

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• Idle time is the devil's play.

  Mark Dayton

  Play, Devil, Idle

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• Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

  Renata Adler

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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• Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

  Jack London

  Play, Energy, Process

  Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.90, Jack London

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• The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers.

  Gucci Mane

  Thinking, Rapper, Track

  Interview with DJ "Z", djbooth.net. 2007.

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• I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow.

  Joe Lando

  Country, Planting Seeds, Remodeling

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• Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• So, what we do as the game accesses the Blu-ray disc, is we take any data that was accessed and we put it on the hard drive. And if then if there is idle time, we go ahead and copy the remaining data to the hard drive. And what that means is after an hour or two, the game is on the hard drive, and you have access, you have dramatically quicker loading And you have the ability to do some truly high-speed streaming.

  Mark Cerny

  Mean, Games, Two

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