I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world. — Thomas Hazlett Copy Share Image
I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work. — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and… — Mark Hatfield Copy Share Image
I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to… — Austin Mahone Copy Share Image
Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, ..… — Alain Juppe Copy Share Image
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing… — Susan Chira Copy Share Image
When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of. — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing. — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem. — Bob Richardson Copy Share Image
The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours. — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
