A Quote by Walter Annenberg

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Walter Annenberg

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Walter Annenberg
American - Businessman
March 13, 1908 - October 1, 2002

Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.

George Harrison

If you can't tie good knots, tie plenty of them

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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

Bill Nye

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

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For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

D. H. Lawrence

Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

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Bertrand Russell

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

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To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.

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I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.