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slacked
«Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.»
Author: Ross Perot
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
accomplishment, lost cause, self-discipline, sense of balance, slacked, slacking
«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
habitually, lap, page, popular, reader, slack, slacked, slacking, strain, whatsoever, write off
«Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground»
Author: Heywood C. Broun
(Writer)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
axes, axis, favors, free speech, slacked, slacking
«The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.»
«And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you? / Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.»
«And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.»
«Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.»
«Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; / And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.»
«Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.»