Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 12

• It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

  Bob Geldof

  Mean, Talking, Giving

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

  Brad Warner

  Looks, May, Exposing

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.87, New World Library

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• If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.

  Karan Bajaj

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

  Beth Henley

  Mother, Phones, Talking

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• I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

  Garrison Keillor

  Life, Death, Insanity

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• Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?

  Franny Armstrong

  Real, Thinking, Years

  "There will be blood – watch exclusive of 10:10 campaign's 'No Pressure' film" by Damian Carrington, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The real message of the left is intolerance, zealotry, bigotry and hate. The left has no use for the First Amendment or the rest of the Constitution unless it fits their multicultural, euro-socialist agenda, which is failing all across Europe and everywhere it is practiced.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Hate, Rocks

  Washington Times, February 20, 2012.

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• I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing. You know what I mean? Just getting up, being around the house, going outside the back yard, coming back in; I really like to do nothing because I travel a lot. There's a lot of travelling. There's a lot of on the phone all the time. There's a lot of looking at papers and reading things and so you don't want to read magazines and you don't want to do anything; you don't want to read books, you just want to just kind of shut down a little bit.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Couple, Reading, Book

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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

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Way

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. . . . It's a nifty volume, not only because it gives you a sense of what our most highly regarded military theorists are thinking but because sometimes what they're thinking is the last thing you'd expect. Especially interesting is a section called 'Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations,' which tells us: 'Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction' and 'Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.'

  David L. Ulin

  Military, War, Marine

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• 56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.

  Gordon Brown

  Party, Taken, Yesterday

  "PMQs February 11 2008 Did the Torys change Wikipedia's entry on Titian? (Prime Minister's Questions 8:44)". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 11, 2008.

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• The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.

  James Callaghan

  Country, Wish, Use

  James Callaghan's speech at Cardiff (May 25, 1983), as quoted in "Callaghan defends deterrent" by Tim Jones in The Times (p. 1), May 26, 1983.

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• There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

  Paul Smith

  Thinking, Discipline, Parent

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• 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.

  Joni Ernst

  Hard Work, Example, Reform

  Source: hotair.com

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• I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Giving

  "Leadership in America". www.nbcnews.com. January 3, 2011.

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• 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.

  Ang Lee

  Choices, Wish, Made

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• 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.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Rigor Mortis, Waiting Rooms

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

  Doris Lessing

  Reading, Thinking, Bed

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.435, Vintage

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• There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Way, Candor

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Political, Upset

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• By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

  George Herbert

  Ill

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear.

  Carole Katchen

  Inspiration, Luxury, Emptiness

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Blow

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• Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Thinking, Doe

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• Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Eight, Play

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