Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 3

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

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

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.

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.

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

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

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

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

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.

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?

I enjoy doing nothing.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

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

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

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

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

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

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

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

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

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.