Sluggish Quotes:

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

- Peter Senge

source: Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.282, Random House

topic: Patient, Produce, Sluggish

We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.

- George H. W. Bush

source: "Like Father, Like Son" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. June 01, 2001.

topic: Enjoy, Sluggish

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

- Edmund Spenser

source: Edmund Spenser (1850). “Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].”, p.39

topic: Nurse, Sin, Sluggish

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

- Evelyn Waugh

topic: Patriotic, Beer, America, Sluggish

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

- Margaret Cavendish

source: "Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader".

topic: Adventure, Achievement, Noble, Sluggish

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

- Samuel Johnson

source: "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

topic: Drinking, Men, Alcohol, Sluggish

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

- Walter Scott

topic: Mean, Men, Years, Marshes, Whole Year

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Age, Hallmark, Institutions, Sluggish

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

- Ovid

topic: Moving, Water, Sloth, Sluggish

Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

topic: Soul, Leisure, Inward, Sluggish

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Dog, Men, Islam, Muslim Faith, Frenzy

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.999, e-artnow

topic: Home, Names, California, Recklessness, Sluggish

I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.

- Annie Proulx

source: "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.

topic: Suffering, Atmosphere, Hustle, Untrustworthy, Twitching

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Morning, Work, Men, Sluggish

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing,

- William Wilberforce

topic: Heart, Soul, May, Volatility, I May Not Be

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

- Jarvis Cocker

topic: Character, Reason, Sluggish

If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. Im sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.

- Josie Loren

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Running, Workout, Tired, Junk Food, Sluggish

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Memories, Passion, Yield, Sluggish

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.

- Langdon Smith

source: Langdon Smith (1922). “Poems of Evolution”

topic: Time, Tadpoles, Fishes, Slime, Sluggish

Food makes my mind sluggish.

- Miles Davis

topic: Food, Mind, Sluggish

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Health, Expression, People, Sedentary, Sluggish

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

- Will Cuppy

topic: Spring, Passion, Animal, Amorous, Sluggish

During the hard training phase never be afraid to take a day off. If your legs are feeling unduly stiff and sore, rest; if you are at all sluggish, rest; in fact, if in doubt, rest.

- Bruce Fordyce

topic: Feelings, Doubt, Training, Sluggish

Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.

- Tae Yun Kim

topic: Blood, Nerves, Red, Energizing, Lethargic

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Mean, Blood, Evil, Sluggish

The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the Aetherial Lights [stars] are to be shifted, so that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to the authority of the Holy Writ which many time: confirms the stability of the Earth (as we shall discuss more fully elsewhere).

- Tycho Brahe

topic: Stars, Ideas, Light, Sluggish

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

topic: Baseball, Opportunity, Games, Sluggish

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

- Hesiod

source: Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.14, Courier Corporation

topic: Procrastination, Men, Hands, Sluggish

If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day and work out. I work out, I do circuit training so I try to keep my heart rate up whether I'm doing cardio, lifting weights or jumping rope. I like to mix it up. I also take Zumba classes - I love those, those are a blast.

- Jordin Sparks

topic: Zumba, Crazy, Heart, Circuit Training, Lifting Weights

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

- Mikhail Lermontov

topic: Heart, Mind, Dreamer, Dealings, Midwinter

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

- Karl Rove

topic: Recovery, Usa, Decision, Jobless, Sluggish

Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Fire, Flames, Identity, Embers, Sluggish

So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Depth, Hours, Yeah, Sluggish

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Depression, Lying, Stupid, Life Is Not Worth Living, What Did I Do Wrong

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

- Jostein Gaarder

topic: Horse, Trying, Athens, Gadflies, Sluggish

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

- Brian May

topic: Surfing, Surf, Sluggish

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Effort, World, Way, Unfamiliar, Ordinariness

I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

- John Kennedy Toole

source: John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.149, LSU Press

topic: Morning, Quality, Penance, Sluggish

I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.

- Dean Karnazes

topic: Running, Health, Air, Ultra Marathon, Fresh Air

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

- Matthew Macfadyen

source: "Don't get personal..." by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2005.

topic: Play, Long, Too Much, Sluggish

You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

- Matthew Quick

topic: Desire, Drs, Needs, Meds, Outburst

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

- Jane Addams

topic: Wisdom, Men, Ideas, Sluggish

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

- William Gibson

source: William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.78, Penguin

topic: Country, Automation, Prestige, Sluggish

Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

- Eric Hoffer

source: "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 28, 1973.

topic: Animal, Men, Play, Subsistence, Sluggish

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.

- William Carlos Williams

source: 1923 Spring and All, 'Spring and All'.

topic: Spring, Naked, World, Lifeless, Dazed

the sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.

- Shinzo Abe

source: "Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

topic: Strong, Japan, Creating, Prospects, Sluggish

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Depressing, Mediocrity, Pressure, Indomitable, Glaciers

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

- Rory McIlroy

topic: Morning, Light, Play, Carbs, Porridge

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

- George Santayana

topic: Home, Men, Mind, Bad Manners, Plasticity

All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

- Walter Bagehot

source: Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.186

topic: Fall, Men, Hunting, Immediate Action, Traditional

Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Death, Brother, Rocks, Sluggish