Counter Productivity Quotes

#1. Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?

Candace Schuler

#2. Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Richard M. Weaver

#3. Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;
Custards for supper, and an endless host
Of syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,
And other such ladylike luxuries.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#4. The first action of my life was the taking hold of my nose with both hands. My mother saw this and called me a genius:-my father wept for joy and presented me with a treatise on Nosology. This I mastered before I was breeched.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. Once the body has atrophied, you will become vulnerable to many conditions.

Steven Magee

#6. Have faith in fate. You don't have a choice.

Tapan Ghosh

#7. I stroke his hair and repeat the words of comfort he whispered to me the last time we were together. "Shhh," I say. "I'm here. I'm right here.

Susan Ee

#8. The makeup of your thoughts is exposed through your internal dialog.

Stephen Richards

#9. It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing everyone dies one moment, one way or other way.

Deyth Banger

#10. Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.

Steve Maraboli

#11. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Charles Buxton

#12. When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.

Henry Miller

#13. Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Erma Bombeck

#14. Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression.

Jane Smiley