Quotes About Sitting Idle

#1. In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#2. It is better to being hectic in work, than worried by sitting idle

Samar Sudha

#3. There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#4. I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home

Ranvir Shorey

#5. Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Bill Gates

#7. The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

Bill Budge

#8. To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood ...

Lord Chesterfield

#9. Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.

Neil Gaiman

#10. It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Toyin Odutola

#11. Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#12. Manliness is not mere courage, it is the quality of soul which frankly accepts all conditions in human life, and makes it a point of honor not to be dismayed or wearied by them.

Amy Carmichael

#13. We made sure you got the cute, gay doctor, Lonny said, smiling at the man, shamelessly flirting.

Ethan Day

#14. We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

Barack Obama

#15. I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people ... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.

Ruth St. Denis

#16. I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

Albert Ellis

#17. Our task is not to whitewash nor bloat the truth. Our task is to tell the truth. Period.

Max Lucado

#18. She lay with her face to the wall, muttering low, but muttering always: Alas! alas! what is done in youth can never be undone in age! what is done in youth can never be undone in age!

Elizabeth Gaskell