Slacked Quotes

#1. From a very early age, the message is drilled into our heads: Failure is bad; failure means you didn't study or prepare; failure means you slacked off or - worse! - aren't smart enough to begin with. Thus, failure is something to be ashamed of.

Ed Catmull

#2. I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.

Dick Beardsley

#3. Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.

Percy Sledge

#4. The British welfare state, it seemed, had removed the incentives without which a capitalist economy simply could not function: the carrot of serious money for those who strove, the stick of hardship for those who slacked.

Niall Ferguson

#5. I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then so many things would be missed.

Sandra Bullock

#6. The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Annie Dillard

#7. Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Ava DuVernay

#8. Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

James Nesbitt

#9. I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

Natalie Portman

#10. And suddenly I just need to hold his hand more than I've ever needed anything in this world.

Gayle Forman

#11. It's nice being around someone without always having to think about who you're supposed to be and what you're supposed to do and think and say. It's nice to just concentrate on being the person you are - whoever you are.

Brenna Yovanoff

#12. You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Gregory Maguire

#13. A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Iris Murdoch

#14. To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Samuel Johnson

#15. If you cling too much to logic you will never be able to be part of the living process that this existence is. Life is more than logic: life is paradox, life is mystery.

Osho

#16. When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

Ace Frehley

#17. Promise you'll save your heart for God's best, a man who loves God as much as you do. Because therein lies a love like no other.

Julie Lessman

#18. Give me simplicity, that I may live,
So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
Know them and practise them: then shall I give
For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

George Herbert

#19. If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde