Doing Nothing Quotes

335 quotes by 290 authors

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there… — Romola Garai
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. — Matsuo Basho
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're… — Charles Bukowski
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing. — Ian Mcewan
None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. — Orson Scott Card
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. — A A Milne
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon — Oscar Wilde
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing… — Daniil Kharms
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the… — Robertson Davies
Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through... — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day… — Margaret Thatcher
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing… — Federico Fellini
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 practically doing nothing… — Jeff Kinney
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise… — Henry David Thoreau
Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even… — Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing. — Scott Westerfeld
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they… — Alan Moore
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. — Audrey Niffenegger
Oh, I never kid about Artemis. I promised her Iâ€™d sit here and do nothing, so here I am doing nothing. Much like a really… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so… — Maureen Johnson

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