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

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Family And Friends, Exchanging

  "Fashion Police Star George Kotsiopoulos Talks Best Holiday and Winter Trends". Interview with Chrissy Lorenzo, www.justluxe.com. December 29, 2011.

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• That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay about doing nothing! The highest performers-the winners-respond by studying successful people and duplicating success.

  Grant Cardone

  Successful, Order, People

  Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.132, John Wiley & Sons

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• The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

  Noam Chomsky

  Trying, Want, Pursue

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• I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

  Lena Dunham

  Names, Mediocre

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• Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Needs, Firsts

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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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

  Sometimes, Can Do

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Long, Feelings, Guilt

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1728, Random House

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• Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Reality, Expression

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.10, Anchor

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

  Henny Youngman

  Years, Impossible, Nothing Is Impossible

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• I think a lot of people were under the impression that property development was a way of becoming a millionaire in six months, while doing nothing, and I don't think that's the case. And I'm not sure it ever has been, really.

  Sarah Beeny

  Thinking, People, Six Months

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• Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

  Aristotle

  Trying, Way, Noisy

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• I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.

  Ron Clarke

  Tired, Kids, People

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• Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

  Peter Prange

  Ignorance, Fighting, May

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Yoga, Walking Meditation

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• People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.

  Amy Winehouse

  Stars, Drama, Team

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• 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.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Pay, Envelopes, Months

  "Famed author Mary Higgins Clark on faith, optimism and how she and her daughter Carol came to collaborate on a TV pilot". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

  Thomas Watson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Educational

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• We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

  Paul Goodman

  Pain, Blessing, Intelligent

  "Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 71-72), 1956.

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• That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

  Pliny the Younger

  Conditions

  Pliny (the Younger) (18??). “The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest”

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• The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

  Richard Steele

  Laziness, Labor

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• The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Sitting Still, Justice

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.92, VM eBooks

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• I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Want, Accents

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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• In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

  Ian Hacking

  Settling, Cases

  Ian Hacking (2001). “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, Military, Medicine

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• The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Mistake, Tired, Men

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