Best 120 quotes in «doing nothing quotes» category

pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.

These were desperate times, the two men agreed; it was easy to stay at home and pull the bedcovers over your heads, but if nothing was done, someone would rip the bedcovers from your face and tug you naked into the street.

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when to sit doing nothing gives us a sense of life's richness and a feeling that the least effort would be intolerable. The melancholy we took with us to table has disappeared and, if we think of it at all it is only to smile, as at some black mood now past, its cause having gone. And with the melancholy, all scruple, all remorse departs from us.

...this evening it's too late, too late to get things right, I'll go to sleep, so that I may say, hear myself say, a little later, I've slept, he's slept, but he won't have slept, or else he's sleeping now, he'll have done nothing, nothing but go on, doing what, doing what he does, that is to say, I don't know, giving up, that's it, I'll have gone on giving up, having had nothing, not being there.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

You cannot criticise a man who is doing something while sitting down.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

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!

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

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

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.

Failure is doing nothing.

Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

I enjoy doing nothing.

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

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

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

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.

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.

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

I generally don't enjoy relaxing and doing nothing on holiday.

I like to relax. Spend it with people that I've grown up with, or people that I care about, and just relax, sit around doing nothing or sitting on a beach.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

I'm very much looking forward to doing nothing fixed, just riding for fun.