Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter… — David Bolinsky Copy Share Image
You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take… — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...this evening it's too late, too late to get things right, I'll go to sleep, so that I may say, hear myself… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off. — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of… — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing. — Jorge Cruise Copy Share Image
If you are doing nothing, God doesn't need to give you any help in doing nothing. Go out and do something impossible… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
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