Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 4

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

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.

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.

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

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

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

Doing nothing, badly.

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

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.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.