Doing nothing Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Some people have a genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously”

— Anonymous

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

— Amelia Barr

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

— Gertrude Stein

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things…

— Benjamin Haydon

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

— Seth Godin

I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

— William Hogarth

Everyone is born a genius.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

— James Lipton

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

— Thelonious Monk

A genius sometimes can not answer a simple question asked by a stupid person.

— Anonymous

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

— W. H. Auden

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

— Elbert Hubbard