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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.”

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Book:Starting At Zero: His Own Story

Source: Starting At Zero: His Own Story

“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.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“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.”

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Author:Sharon Stone

“My heart's in stage. Making Quadrophenia was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But "hurry up and wait" is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.”

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Author:Phil Daniels

“Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail. Anyone who is currently achieving anything in life is simultaneously risking failure. It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing. A flawed diamond is more valuable than a perfect brick. People who have no failures also have few victories.”

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Author:John Landis Mason

“Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.”

“I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.”

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Author:Joel Stein

“I've just been livin' a normal life, going shopping, going out, gettin' pissed. I keep sitting on my arse doing nothing.”

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Author:Lady Sovereign

“I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.”

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Author:Vashti Bunyan

“NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.”

“If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.”

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Author:Karan Bajaj

“It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.”

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Author:Joni Ernst

“There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.”

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Author:Paul Smith

“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."”

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Author:Amanda Palmer

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

Doing Nothing Advocating

Author:Brenda Strong

“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.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

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Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“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.”

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Author:Rob Lowe

“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.”

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Author:Mark Hulbert

“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.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“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.”

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Author:Patrick Heusinger

“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.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

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

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Author:Greg Rutherford

“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.”

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Author:Peter Buffett

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

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Author:Travis Rice

“Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.”

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Author:Tim Winton

“When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something moves in to fill it. Writing books is like that. It's mostly about freeing up time, doing nothing, and in that time some writing starts to happen. We need to figure out how to maintain those voids.”

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Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Love women! I hate feminism. "Hate" may be an accurate word, but too strong to use. I strongly oppose feminism because it's nothing but liberalism, and it's doing nothing to actually advance women. It's doing just the exact opposite.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.”

“I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.”

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Author:Olga Kurylenko

“A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.”

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Author:William Barclay

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”

“I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.”

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Author:Nas

“Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.”

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Author:Leslie Nielsen

“As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.”

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Author:Bob Beauprez

“Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.”

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Author:Mortimer Adler

“Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.”

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Author:Sharon Salzberg

“I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.”

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Author:Gertrude Stein

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

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Author:Gertrude Stein

“I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.”

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Author:Barbra Streisand

“In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.”

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Author:Stewart Udall

“When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.”

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Author:Viswanathan Anand

“If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.”

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Author:Romola Garai

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.”