Doing Nothing Quotes

335 quotes by 290 authors

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling… — M. Scott Peck
The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake. — John Wooden
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in… — Paulo Coelho
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. — Floyd Dell
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson
Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing. — Tom Sims
There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed, — Soledad O'Brien
I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work. — Pierre Reverdy
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when youâ€™re apparently doing nothing,… — Brian Eno
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. — Oscar Wilde
I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their… — Charles Spurgeon
Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you… — David Bolinsky
You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared… — Mother Angelica
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect… — Max McKeown
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing. — Jenny Joseph
Nothing comes from doing nothing. — William Shakespeare
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing — George Bernard Shaw
Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours. — Steve Harvey

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