quotes about Doing Nothing
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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 -
Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
-- Alain de BottonSource : Twitter post from Mar 26, 2015
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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 -
Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself
-- Amish Tripathi -
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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 -
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 -
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
-- Anne Tyler -
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
-- Aristotle -
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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 -
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
-- Ben Feldman -
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
-- Ben SherwoodSource : Ben Sherwood (2009). “The Survivors Club: The secrets and science that could save your life”, p.14, Penguin UK
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The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
-- Bill Crawford -
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The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.
-- Bob Richardson -
Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.
-- Bob WoodwardSource : Bob Woodward (2011). “Obama's Wars”, p.392, Simon and Schuster
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It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.
-- Brad Warner -
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 -
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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 -
I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
-- Catherine McCormackSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
-- Clay Shirky -
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 McGintySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.
-- Denis Waitley -
If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.
-- Doug Duncan -
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
-- Floyd DellSource : Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”
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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 -
I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.
-- George KotsiopoulosSource : "Fashion Police Star George Kotsiopoulos Talks Best Holiday and Winter Trends". Interview with Chrissy Lorenzo, www.justluxe.com. December 29, 2011.
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Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
-- George R. R. Martin -
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Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
-- Gertrude Stein -
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
-- Henry FieldingSource : Henry Fielding (1780). “The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”, p.71
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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
-- Hugo Grotius -
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
-- James Baker -
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They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
-- Jean Genet -
Uh, what are you doing?†“Nothing much. Just erasing all of Calinda’s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out what happened, but I’m making it look like a computer error. Still, I imagine she’ll get some nasty lectures from her profs and parents in the meantime.
-- Jennifer Estep -
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
-- Jenny JosephSource : The Observer, April 19, 1998.
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When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?
-- John C. DvorakSource : "XP Decay". PC Magazine, September 29, 2003.
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
-- John le CarreSource : FaceBook post by John le Carré from Oct 20, 2010
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Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.
-- Jorge CruiseSource : Jorge Cruise (2011). “The 3-Hour Diet (TM): Lose up to 10 Pounds in Just 2 Weeks by Eating Every 3 Hours!”, p.7, Harper Collins
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I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.
-- Jorge GarciaSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
-- Ken FollettSource : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.390, Penguin
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The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.
-- Kevin DeYoung -
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
-- Kin Hubbard -
There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.
-- Laurence Overmire -
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We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.
-- Lee H. Hamilton -
You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur
-- Marc LevySource : Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.
-- Max Irons -
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
-- Max McKeown -
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I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.
-- Mike Oldfield -
To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.
-- Nancy HaleSource : Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
-- Nas -
I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.
-- Nick Frost -
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We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.
-- Noah Baumbach -
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
-- Norton Juster -
I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
-- Pierre Reverdy -
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Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
-- Rahel Varnhagen -
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
-- Rebecca SolnitSource : "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2000.
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Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.
-- Robin Sharma -
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
-- Seth Godin -
There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
-- Shirley Williams -
Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing
-- Soichiro Honda -
I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.
-- Sonakshi Sinha -
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If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.
-- Stephen Colbert -
Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.
-- Steve HarveySource : FaceBook post by Steve Harvey from Mar 06, 2014
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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
-- Stewart Udall -
I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.
-- Suzanne SomersSource : Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
-- Taylor KitschSource : "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.
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You are going to kill me, and that will protect society from me. But out there are many, many more people who are addicted to pornography, and you are doing nothing about that.
-- Ted Bundy -
If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
-- Terry Eagleton -
"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."
-- Thomas Aquinas -
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She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.
-- Tim Bowler -
I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.
-- Tom Sims -
Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.
-- Tony Robbins -
In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.
-- Tracy McGrady -
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I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
-- Viswanathan Anand -
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
-- William Barclay -
I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
-- Ziggy Marley -
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I generally don't enjoy relaxing and doing nothing on holiday.
-- Greg RutherfordSource : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
-- Ignatius of Loyola -
Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.
-- Ruth Rudner -
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There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.
-- Soledad O'Brien -
I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.
-- Vashti Bunyan -
I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING.
-- Brenda Strong -
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That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
-- Pliny the YoungerSource : Pliny (the Younger) (18??). “The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest”
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Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.
-- Emily James Smith Putnam -
Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.
-- Georges Courteline -
Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.
-- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar -