Otium Quotes

#1. The Lord preserve us from sainthood

Nikos Kazantzakis

#2. If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

Alan Shearer

#3. O reputation! dearer far than life.

James Russell Lowell

#4. I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#5. I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#6. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Jack Kornfield

#7. My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'

Paula Poundstone

#8. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

Joseph A. Maciariello

#9. With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

Max Horkheimer

#10. I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted, bloodstained tears.

Anne Rice

#11. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson