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“If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.”

Ifs World Want Long Waiting Long Time Patience Response Patient Idle Be Patient

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.”

People Giving Long Said Enough Sin Asking Lists Ministers Gentleman Lazy Laziness Idle Enough Said

Book:John Ploughman's Talks

Source: John Ploughman's Talks

“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.”

“Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.”

Long Used Energy Space Cost Function Distance Heavy Conversion Sufficient Load Idle Indispensable Time And Space Margins Transport Circuits Batteries Surplus Storage Heavy Loads

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?”

Ifs Should Long Play Seems Would Be Choices Passion Circumstances Ambition Argument Favors Idle Employed Boundless Rail Amused

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners