Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 9

• People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  People, Attention, Awful

  "Guess Who Loves Cheap Chic? Sarah Jessica Parker". Interview with Bob Morris, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2008.

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• The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.

  Bob Richardson

  People, Problem, Solve

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Tired, Relax, Visitors

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• 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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Encounters, Waste

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• How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Simple, Government, Miracle

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal
  seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
  has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
  greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
  through freezing - a pleasant one.

  Reinhold Messner

  Memories, Goal, Important

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• Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do NOT believe that the interference by Government will have much affect on changing temperatures or rainfall. Indeed as a gardener in the West of Scotland I look forward to warmer temperatures and more rain so will be doing nothing as an individual that can in any event be seen as tokenism to a perceived problem.

  Brian Donohoe

  Rain, Believe, Government

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• Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Mistake, Foundation, Investing

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”

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• Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

  Aidan Chambers

  Bored, Boring, Pleasure

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• Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

  Leonard Peltier

  Horse, Crazy, Native American

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

  Melanie Laurent

  Girl, Beach, Morning

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• Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Doe, Disappear

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• I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

  Mike Oldfield

  Meditation

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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

  Thinking, Done, Walking

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2000.

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• Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Exceed

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2015

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• Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet a beautiful woman and you are happy, or you meet a beautiful man and you are happy - but the meditator is simply happy. His happiness has no reason from the outside world; his happiness wells up within himself.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Beautiful, Men

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• Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.

  David Bolinsky

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has His own timetable. It is we who must learn to adjust to it, not vice versa. When God's time comes nothing will stand in His way. We can therefore wait for Him with this happy confidence: "As for God, His way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31).

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Mean, Perfect, Waiting

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• I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

  Jenny Joseph

  Sin, Raised, Feels

  The Observer, April 19, 1998.

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• I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strong, Thinking, Mad

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• We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Marine, Army

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• The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Mistake, Sitting

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• I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

  M. Scott Peck

  Time, Stress, Two

  M. Scott Peck (2009). “A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered”, p.81, Bantam

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• The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

  Mark Hatfield

  Christian, Jesus, Biblical

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• If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.

  Wes Fesler

  Laziness, Rewards, Habit

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