Quotes on Employed

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.