Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 6

• So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.

  Ryan Tedder

  Ideas, Trials, Earth

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• It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.

  Bill McCollum

  Gun, Law, Matter

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

  Wess Roberts

  Stress, Relax, May

  Wess Roberts (1992). “Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich: Lessons in Personal Achievement”, Harper Perennial

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• The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.

  Anuj

  Humble, Simple, Awards

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• Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

  Bob Woodward

  Sometimes, Reactions, Counterinsurgency

  Bob Woodward (2011). “Obama's Wars”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

  Seth Godin

  Path, Tribes, Common

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.59, Penguin

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• A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!

  David Berg

  Thinking, Clouds, People

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• Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.

  Andres Oppenheimer

  War, Marijuana, Drug

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• While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

  Louie Giglio

  Fighting, Depth, Earth

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• Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Believe, Heaven, Trying

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Pride

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• The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Book, Artist, World

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• Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

  Alain Juppe

  Country, Giving, Community

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• You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Tired, Bored, Mind

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• "The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

  Thomas Aquinas

  Usury, Becoming, Should

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• Failure is doing nothing.

  Paul Hauck

  Failure

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• I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

  Erin Daniels

  Wine, Glasses, Chocolate

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• The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, Men, Doe

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• If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.

  Sean Duffy

  Senior, Cutting, Different

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• I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Sports, Dream, Bad Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Enemy, Want

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• Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

  Austin Mahone

  People, Dancing, Sitting

  "Austin Mahone On His New Single And Summer Tour (With Taylor Swift!)". Interview With Casey Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2013.

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• In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.

  Tracy McGrady

  Order, Challenges, Different

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• The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

  Laozi

  Art, Real, Political

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• The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear what I’m about to tell you.  I hope you’ll hear it all the way down to your toes.  When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing.  You’re doing the most important something there is.  You’re allowing your soul to grow up.  If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Growing Up, Eye, Hands

  Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions”, p.17, Harper Collins

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