Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Thinking, Sitting, Might

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.76, A&C Black

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• If Bernie Sanders was the nominee, wherever he went, the crowds would be big and you'd be scared to death of them. You would be worried sick. There'd be so much energy, and those people would be running around and they'd be doing nothing but working for, campaigning for, marching for, protesting for Bernie Sanders. None of that is ever gonna happen happen with Hillary Clinton, unless they pay for it, unless they buy it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, People, Sick

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.

  Mark Hulbert

  Past, Discipline, Long

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• Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up here at the house, I would probably be missing something that was a lot more fun. I don't have that sense anymore.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Reading, House

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really transformative changes that need to happen.

  Jill Stein

  Giving, Climate, Needs

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing.

  Rand Paul

  Qatar, Kuwait, Middle East

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing."

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Practice, Perfection

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, Thinking, Broken

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We've been on a long break and I've just been kicking back, doing nothing. Like our government.

  Bill Maher

  Government, Kicking Back, Long

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• I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING.

  Brenda Strong

  Advocating

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• I can't take anything off the table. Because you look at some of these countries, you look at North Korea, we're doing nothing there. China should solve that problem for us. China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Powerful, Korea

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Morning, Brother

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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

  Travis Rice

  Fun, Riding, Looking Forward

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important.

  Peter Buffett

  Technology, Men, Trying

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.

  Tim Winton

  Certain, Loses

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, Cutting, People

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• If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Two

  "Malcolm X: Make It Plain". "The American Experience", PBS, season 6, episode 6, January 26, 1994.

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• When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

  Antonio Banderas

  Feelings, Actors, Comfortable

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Eye, Littles, Pay

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

  Artie Lange

  Jason, Actors, Committed

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• We must act now to make sure fresh water is available to everyone, no matter where they live. The consequences of doing nothing will be even more catastrophic.

  Penelope Cruz

  Water, Matter, Available

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• You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't just have to walk around and play golf or do nothing... It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

  Sharon Stone

  Golf, Play, Sick

  "Romancing With Stone". Interview with Jessica Boden, www.newyou.com. March 14, 2014.

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

  Greg Rutherford

  Holiday, Enjoy

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I had heard that Tom [Cruise] was the same way, that he is incredibly dedicated. I was very excited to meet him and I was, honest to God, weirdly surprised that the guy makes me look lazy. I think he does think I'm a hard worker, but he makes me look like I'm doing nothing. The guy is at the gym before anybody in the morning.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Morning, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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