Doing Nothing Quotes

335 quotes by 290 authors

Iâ€™ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didnâ€™t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting… — Ian Mcewan
You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between. — Bill O'Reilly
Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking. — George R. R. Martin
You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest… — Marc Levy
Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself — Amish Tripathi
If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can. — Seth Godin
I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Itâ€™s a risk Iâ€™m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reactionÂ â€¦ you touch her skin… — Lisa Kleypas
I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do. — Charles Bukowski
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing… — James Reavis
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the… — Rabindranath Tagore
Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to… — Eileen Caddy
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing. — Zhuangzi
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. — Jerome K. Jerome
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. — Alan Bennett
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing.… — Christian Bale
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something… — Denis Waitley
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. — Laozi
I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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