Doing nothing Quote by Alan Bennett Download Open image “If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.” — Alan Bennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doing nothing Ifs Leisure Mean Purpose Work
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
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… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have. — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working. — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“BURGESS How do you like Moscow? CORAL Loathe it, darling. I cannot understand what those Three Sisters were on about. It gives the play… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are going to kill me, and that will protect society from me. But out there are many, many more people who are addicted… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
Love women! I hate feminism. "Hate" may be an accurate word, but too strong to use. I strongly oppose feminism because it's nothing but… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The real message… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING. — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image