Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 2

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

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

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing 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.

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.

You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

"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."

The sage acts by doing nothing.

The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.

Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be "There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me." And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!

Failure is doing nothing.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

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

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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