Quotes by Sloth Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness. Plato sloth lust order We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. Quintilian excuse sloth life Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. Reid Hoffman greed ego sloth The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity. Ralph Waldo Emerson sloth humanity mean It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, Rudyard Kipling sloth temptation funny Sloth is all passions the most powerful. Samuel Beckett passion sloth powerful It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. Samuel Johnson laziness sloth ease If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. Samuel Johnson solitude sloth advice Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. Samuel Johnson sloth calling men There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business. Samuel Johnson laziness sloth business Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension. Samuel Johnson sloth book knowledge Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. Simon Mainwaring maintaining-the-status-quo car sloth Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him. Theophrastus lazy sloth men Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds. Thomas Aquinas sloth evil men The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence. Upton Sinclair stupidity sloth brain All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. Vladimir Nabokov sloth pride lust Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process. Warren Buffett hallmark investment sloth No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing. Washington Irving idlers sloth men Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board. Warren Buffett style boards sloth Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style. Warren Buffett investing style sloth «1234567»
