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
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing. — Tom Sims Copy Share Image
Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding. — Stephen Colbert 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
I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing… — Ron Clarke Copy Share Image
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting. — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or even a day. It is in… — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
It was like, 'Do you want a job?’ It didn’t matter what the pitch was. I had to get something because I… — Nick Wechsler Copy Share Image
Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very much looking forward to doing nothing fixed, just riding for fun. — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay… — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
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