A Quote by Tom Hodgkinson

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

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Tom Hodgkinson
British - Writer
Born: 1968

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

James Arthur

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau

From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant decentralization because knowledge is not concentrated anywhere. It's based on motivation, and so these are the advantages of, say, the cautious case for capitalism, that the market system is efficient.

Kenneth Arrow

There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

Aldo Leopold

You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

Chris Cuomo

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

Yip Harburg

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

John Darnielle

A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.

Robert D. Putnam

From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.

David Steindl-Rast

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

Isaac D'Israeli

To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.

Nelson Mandela

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

James Joll

I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.

Yves Behar

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

Linda Colley

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