Doing Nothing Quotations

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

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.

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

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

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

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

I am having a good time 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.

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.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

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

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

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

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.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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

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

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.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities 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...

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

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

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.

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

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

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.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

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

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

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

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

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

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

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

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

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

Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years.

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

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

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

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

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

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

I enjoy doing nothing.

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

Doing nothing, badly.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

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

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things

I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

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

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

I have spent my life laboriously 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. It's an essentially corrupt society.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

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

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

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

There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed,

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

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

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.

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?

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

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

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

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

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

the beauty of doing nothing

Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

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

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.