In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.” — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do. — Charles Bukowski 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
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
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
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
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
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down… — John W. Vessey, Jr 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
People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable… — Lorene Cary 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
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
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
Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do… — Thomas Merton 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
It’s a risk I’m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction …… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail. Anyone who is currently achieving… — John Landis Mason Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward. — Wes Fesler 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
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
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