Quotes and Sayings About Doing Nothing

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Bored #Doing Nothing #Boring

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
-- Alain de Botton

#Doing Nothing

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
-- Alexander Pope

#Men #Doing Nothing #Way

Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself
-- Amish Tripathi

#Doing Nothing #Sin #Committed

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!
-- Andy Andrews

#Men #Criticism #Doing Nothing

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
-- Ang Lee

#Choices #Wish #Doing Nothing

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
-- Anne Tyler

#Doing Nothing #Ends

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
-- Aristotle

#Inspirational #Criticism #Doing Nothing

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Ambitious #Doing Nothing #Kind

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
-- Ben Feldman

#Cost #Doing Nothing

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
-- Ben Sherwood

#Mean #Doing Nothing #Action

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
-- Bill Crawford

#Done #Doing Nothing #Problem

The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.
-- Bob Richardson

#People #Doing Nothing #Problem

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.
-- Bob Woodward

#Doing Nothing #Sometimes #Reactions

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.
-- Brad Warner

#Looks #May #Doing Nothing

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
-- Brian Eno

#Feelings #Important #Doing Nothing

Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear.
-- Carole Katchen

#Inspiration #Luxury #Doing Nothing

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
-- Catherine McCormack

#Doing Nothing #Becoming #Habit

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
-- Clay Shirky

#Real #Gaps #Doing Nothing

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
-- Damian McGinty

#Get Better #Doing Nothing #Performers

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
-- Denis Waitley

#Risk #Doing Nothing #Cost

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.
-- Denis Waitley

#Trying #Doing Nothing #Succeed

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.
-- Doug Duncan

#Want #Doing Nothing #Term

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Men #Looks #Doing Nothing

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
-- Floyd Dell

#Being Free #Doing Nothing #Belief

I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.
-- G-Dragon

#Home #Doing Nothing #Feels

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.
-- George Kotsiopoulos

#Family And Friends #Doing Nothing

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Father #Thinking #Doing Nothing

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Interesting #Literature #Doing Nothing

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
-- Henry Fielding

#Witty #Children #Doing Nothing