Doing Nothing Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

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

Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it.

Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

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

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

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

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

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

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

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

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.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

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.

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

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

I've just been livin' a normal life, going shopping, going out, gettin' pissed. I keep sitting on my arse doing nothing.

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

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

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.

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

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

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.

Much of the stress you experience may be created by recognizing a problem and doing nothing about it.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

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

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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

I like to relax. Spend it with people that I've grown up with, or people that I care about, and just relax, sit around doing nothing or sitting on a beach.

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.]

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

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

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

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.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

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

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.

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

We've been on a long break and I've just been kicking back, doing nothing. Like our government.

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