Doing Nothing famous quotes

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

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
-- Hugo Grotius

#Doing Nothing #Last Words #Labor

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
-- James Baker

#Doing Nothing #Sometimes #Right Time

They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
-- Jean Genet

#Doing Nothing #Intimacy

I enjoy doing nothing.
-- Jeffrey Bernard

#Doing Nothing #Enjoy

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

#Errors #Parent #Doing Nothing

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
-- Jenny Joseph

#Doing Nothing #Sin #Raised

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. Dvorak

#Doing Nothing #Process #Resources

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
-- John le Carre

#Dozen #Doing Nothing #Reason

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.
-- Jorge Cruise

#Doing Nothing #Pounds #Muscles

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.
-- Jorge Garcia

#Dog #House #Doing Nothing

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 Follett

#Believe #Mean #Doing Nothing

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.
-- Kevin DeYoung

#People #Doing Nothing #Ends

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Funny #Business #Doing Nothing

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

#Dream #Doing Nothing #Ends

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.
-- Lee H. Hamilton

#Doing Nothing

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 Levy

#Thinking #Doing Nothing #Goes On

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.
-- Max Irons

#Drama #Trying #Doing Nothing

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

#Moving #Effort #Doing Nothing

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.
-- Mike Oldfield

#Meditation #Doing Nothing

To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.
-- Nancy Hale

#Doing Nothing #Firsts #Inaction

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
-- Nas

#Quality #Doing Nothing #Quality Time

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.
-- Nick Frost

#Bored #Doing Nothing #Guilty

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

#Responsibility #Years #Doing Nothing

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

#Holiday #Care #Doing Nothing

I am having a good time doing nothing.
-- Phylicia Rashad

#Doing Nothing #Good Times #Having A Good Time

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
-- Pierre Reverdy

#Needs #Doing Nothing

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

#Being Alone #Water #Doing Nothing

What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
-- Rahel Varnhagen

#Rain #Doing Nothing

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 Solnit

#Thinking #Doing Nothing #Done

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.
-- Robin Sharma

#Decision #Doing Nothing

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
-- Seth Godin

#Inspiring #Doing Nothing #Cost

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
-- Shirley Williams

#Doing Nothing #Doe #Hazards

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing
-- Soichiro Honda

#Challenges #Doing Nothing #Avoiding

I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.
-- Sonakshi Sinha

#Doing Nothing #Unwind

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.
-- Stephen Colbert

#Government #Surveillance #Doing Nothing

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.
-- Steve Harvey

#Reality #Doing Nothing #Wasting Time

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
-- Stewart Udall

#Growing #Doing Nothing #Population

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 Somers

#Doctors #Giving #Doing Nothing

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 Kitsch

#Littles #Doing Nothing #Actors

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

#People #Scary #Doing Nothing

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
-- Terry Eagleton

#Lying #Order #Doing Nothing

"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

#Usury #Doing Nothing #Becoming

She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.
-- Tim Bowler

#Decision #Doing Nothing #Scared

I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.
-- Tom Sims

#Lying #Meditation #Doing Nothing

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.
-- Tony Robbins

#Crazy #Doing Nothing

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

#Order #Challenges #Doing Nothing

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

#Reading #Doing Nothing #Wildlife

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
-- William Barclay

#Men #Doing Nothing #May

Nothing comes from doing nothing.
-- William Shakespeare

#Doing Nothing

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Doing Nothing

I generally don't enjoy relaxing and doing nothing on holiday.
-- Greg Rutherford

#Holiday #Doing Nothing #Enjoy

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

#Heartfelt #Doing Nothing #Action

Failure is doing nothing.
-- Paul Hauck

#Failure #Doing Nothing

Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.
-- Ruth Rudner

#Thinking #Fishing #Doing Nothing

There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.
-- Soledad O'Brien

#Voice #Doing Nothing #Saying Nothing

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

#Sitting #Movement #Doing Nothing

I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING.
-- Brenda Strong

#Doing Nothing #Advocating

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
-- Cato the Younger

#Men #Evil #Doing Nothing

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Doing Nothing #Conditions

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

#Lying #Struggle #Doing Nothing

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.
-- Georges Courteline

#Doing Nothing #Youth

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.
-- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

#Doing Nothing #Sometimes