Doing Nothing Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!

Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.

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

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

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

the beauty of doing nothing

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.

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.

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

Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.

Doing nothing, badly.

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

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

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

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really transformative changes that need to happen.

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

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.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

We must act now to make sure fresh water is available to everyone, no matter where they live. The consequences of doing nothing will be even more catastrophic.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.