Best work Quote by Will Self

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

— Tom Hodgkinson

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I…

— Robert Webb

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

— Floyd Dell

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a…

— Isak Dinesen

Idleness only leads to bad deeds

— Magnus Stenbock

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

— Jeremy Collier

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

— Tatiana Maslany

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

— Italo Calvino

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

— Virginia Woolf

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing…

— Noah Baumbach

I am capable of being idle.

— Alexander McCall Smith