Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 7

• Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be "There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me." And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!

  Bob Hope

  Kissing, Light, Way

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

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• So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to anything in particular. A man is creative - and if he is creative, whatsoever he does, even if he walks, you can see in his walking there is creativity. Even if he sits silently and does nothing, even non-doing will be a creative act. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree doing nothing is the greatest creator the world has ever known.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Men, Creative

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• We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

  Lee H. Hamilton

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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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• I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Opposites, Bored

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• Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

  Tony Robbins

  Crazy

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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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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• There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Voice, Saying Nothing, Needed

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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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• Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, School

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• The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

  Bill Crawford

  Done, Problem, Lethargy

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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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• When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

  John C. Dvorak

  Process, Resources, Chewing

  "XP Decay". PC Magazine, September 29, 2003.

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• Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Wall, People, Mad

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• Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Hair

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• Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dream, Father, Work

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Interesting, Doe

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.120, Vintage

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• Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Yield, Doe, Pieces

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• I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom."

  Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

  Silence, Departure, Might

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• There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

  Shirley Williams

  Doe, Hazards, Greater

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