Great Carelessness Quotes

#1. Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

Plutarch

#3. Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

Henry Fox Talbot

#4. Khaldoun believed that the great curse of civilization is not war or famine but humidity: "When the moisture, with its evil vapors ascends to the brain, the mind and body and the ability to think are dulled. The result is stupidity, carelessness and a general intemperance.

Eric Weiner

#5. The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal.

Michael Phelps

#6. It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

Frank Herbert

#7. Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

John Cage

#8. Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

Jim Rogers

#9. If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Your spiritual life needs food ... where do you find [this]? In the Bible, the Word of God. The Bible reveals Christ, who is the Bread of Life for your hungry soul, and the Water of Life for your thirsty heart.

Billy Graham

#11. The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

George Santayana

#12. We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Bill Gates

#13. I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Thomas Bernhard

#14. Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero