Best 120 quotes in «doing nothing quotes» category

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.

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

Failure is doing nothing.

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

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 am having a good time 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.

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

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

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

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.

I enjoy doing nothing.

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

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

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day 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 you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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’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.

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

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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

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

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

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

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.

Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.

Much of the stress you experience may be created by recognizing a problem and doing nothing about it.

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

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

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

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!