Doing Nothing Quotes

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

The ultimate happiness is 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.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

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 cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

The sage acts by doing nothing.

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

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

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

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

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

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

Failure is doing nothing.

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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

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

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

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

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

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.

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day 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.

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

I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

It is awfully hard work 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.

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?

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.

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

I enjoy doing nothing.

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

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

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

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.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

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

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.