Dozing Quotes

• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Success, Moving

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

  Brian Eno

  Country, Years, Weight

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• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Exhausted

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

  Mackenzie Crook

  Couple, Two, Fog

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Be the chief but never the lord.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Bad Day

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

  John Piper

  Reality, Water, Heaven

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• You might catch me dozing off, but only for a minute. For a second.

  Young Chop

  Might, Minutes, Catch Me

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Heart, Essence, Practice

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• Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Sides, Emma

  Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (2004). “Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners”, p.174, OUP Oxford

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• I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.

  Michel Ocelot

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

  Billy Wilder

  Kings, Grandmother, Thinking

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• Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sleep, Laziness, Want

  "Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

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• Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

  B. C. Forbes

  Sleep, Men, Watches

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