Best Dozing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I know most of you have dozed off before, but have any of you ever dozed on?”

“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.”

Thinking Looks Kind Stills Tree Wind Kings Forests Chairs Grandmother Old Trees Rocking Chairs Dozing

Author:Billy Wilder

“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.”

Want Hours Sleep Six Seven Laziness Constancy Dozing

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“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?”

Men Stories Young Sleep Watches Saws Wake Up Fellows Blame Caught Wide Awake Sensible Instruction Preacher Sermons Congregation Pulpit Watchers Sleeping In Nodding Sleepers Wide Awake Dozing

Author:B. C. Forbes

“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)”

World Soul Reality Faces Heaven Water Hell Cold Horror Glory Broke Heaven And Hell Cold Water Dozing

Book:Don't Waste Your Life

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“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.”

Feels Writing May Ideas Sometimes Dream Bigs Realizing Interesting Poor Scripts Awful Surprising Very Interesting Dozing

Author:Michel Ocelot

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

Might Minutes Catch Me Dozing

Author:Young Chop

“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.”

Dream Sides Lays Awake Pretending Emma Dozing

Book:Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners

Source: Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners

“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!”

Thinking Self Dream Beautiful Understanding Mystery Tree Shade Explaining Verge Make Out Single Word Dozing

Book:New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Source: New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

“Be the chief but never the lord.”

Inspirational Leadership Inspiring Lord Chiefs Dozing

Author:Laozi

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

Inspirational Doe Action Moving Success Belief Entrepreneur Ants Keep Moving Forward Dozing

Author:Laozi

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

Ifs Inspirational May Ends Wisdom Past Success Change Leadership Focus Achieve Changed Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Succeed Achievement Yoga Uplifting Life Changing Taoism Where You Are Success In Life Encouraging Tao Life And Love Key To Success Better Life Your Future Changing Your Life Making Changes Road To Success Recipe For Success My Future Headings Wise Man Once Said Don't Change Right Direction Change Management Changing Your Mind Tao Te Ching Never Give Up On Something Life Has Changed Change Your Attitude Change And Growth Accepting Change Creating Change Accepting Life Business Change Changing Attitude Managing Change Motivation And Change Mind Changing Darkness Within Clear Water Path To Success Life And Change Change Growth Inspiring Change Life Direction Knowing Others Some People Never Change Action And Change Leadership And Change People Never Change Dozing Growing Business Courageous Decisions

Author:Laozi

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

Inspirational Made Action Deeds Productivity Procrastination Tao Bad Day Minimalism Minimalist Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Chinese Philosopher Tao Wisdom Dozing Small Deeds

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.”

Inspirational Thrive Taoism Exhausted Dozing

Book:Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation

Source: Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation

“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!”

Heart Littles Long States Able Certain Values Practice Five Greater Minutes Mindfulness Sitting Essence Twenties Where You Are State Of Mind Five Minutes Dozing

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“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!”

Two Facts Lasts Hours Couple Scene Sitting Setting Settings Seconds Fog Sitting Around Dozing

Author:Mackenzie Crook

“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.”

Years Country Tradition Weight England Stuck Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Stifling Dozing

Author:Brian Eno