Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 6

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

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.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

the beauty of doing nothing

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

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.

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

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are 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.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical