Charles Lamb Quotes

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I always like to keep myself moving.

I love working. I love doing things. I don't like sitting.

I'm no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

It’s better to wear out than rust out.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.