Doing Nothing Quotes

335 quotes by 290 authors

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time. — Mike Oldfield
Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to… — Laozi
Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need… — Melanie Laurent
Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you… — Leonard Peltier
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 about… — Aidan Chambers
Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem. — Bob Richardson
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished. — Benjamin Franklin
Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do… — Brian Donohoe
Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past… — Stephen Colbert
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park. — Jorge Garcia
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 work and talk… — Ava Gardner
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so… — Taylor Kitsch
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more! — Ben Feldman
It was like, `Do you want a job?â€™ It didnâ€™t matter what the pitch was. I had to get something because I was doing nothing.… — Nick Wechsler
I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing… — Erin Daniels
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing. — Benjamin Franklin
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. — John le Carre
There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before. — Prince Philip

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