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Doing Nothing Quotes

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

I am most content when I'm in the domestic environment relaxing and doing nothing. Music brings me to my true self.
Authors on Doing Nothing Quotes: Laozi Oscar Wilde Seth Godin Ian Mcewan Hannah Arendt Stewart Udall Jorge Cruise Emile M. Cioran Tim Bowler Graham Greene Antonio Banderas Clay Shirky Aidan Chambers Soledad O'Brien Jeffrey Bernard Dallas Willard Viswanathan Anand Henny Youngman Alexander Pope Zig Ziglar Mike Oldfield David Attenborough Richard Branson Kevin DeYoung Phylicia Rashad William Barclay Lee H. Hamilton Brian Eno Nancy Hale Ruth Rudner Jorge Garcia Emily James Smith Putnam Tim Winton
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Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.
Steve Harvey

Your destiny is yours. Quit frittering away time ogling someone else's fate while doing nothing about your own.
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Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
Ignatius of Loyola

Let us strive diligently as if our ultimate victory depended solely on our own efforts, yet have a deep-seated faith that all we are doing is nothing and God is everything.
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Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing
Soichiro Honda

Instead of dreading the test and disappointment, be scared of sidestepping the exam and being inactive.
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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
Ben Feldman

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Nothing comes from doing nothing.
William Shakespeare

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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.
Dallas Willard

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Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.
Bob Woodward

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

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

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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
Cato the Younger

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

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

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Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things
Jackie Chan

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

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

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There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.
Soledad O'Brien

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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.
Hannah Arendt

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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!
Andy Andrews

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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
Hugo Grotius

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

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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.
Suzanne Somers

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

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

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

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

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

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That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Pliny the Younger

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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
Paul Valery

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Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

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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.
Alan Keyes

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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
Zhuangzi

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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.
Kim Basinger

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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.
Rebecca Solnit

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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.
Vashti Bunyan

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

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

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The sage acts by doing nothing.
Laozi

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"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."
Thomas Aquinas

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

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

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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!
Bob Hope

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

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The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.
John C. Maxwell

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

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Failure is doing nothing.
Paul Hauck

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I am having a good time doing nothing.
Phylicia Rashad

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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
Damian McGinty

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

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