Doing Nothing Quotes

I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

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

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.

I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

The sage acts by doing nothing.

"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.

The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be "There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me." And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.

Failure is doing nothing.

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.