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“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?”

Children Play Moments Lasts Tree Sea Wind Quiet Sitting Wave Parks Candle Last Time Limbs Doing Nothing Ponds Children Playing Quiet Moments Wind Blowing Tree Limbs

Author:Ralph Marston

“Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.”

Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

“In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.”

People Ifs World Want Mean Dream Able Political Courses Causes Rich Talent Tears Capable Prepared Strive Profit Soviet Capitalist Worthless Doing Nothing Get Rich Mean People

Author:Joseph Stalin

“My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.”

Worry Painting Doing Nothing

Author:David Hockney

“Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.”

Source: Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous

“Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.”

World Real Done Political Policy Real World Doing Nothing Public Policy

Author:Thomas Hazlett

“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.”

Ifs Feels Writing Two Book Ideas Choices Latter One Time Doing Nothing Writing A Book

Author:Geoff Dyer

“What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.”

Rain Doing Nothing

Author:Rahel Varnhagen

“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.”

Important Seems Goal Memories Attention Greater Dangerous Pleasant Climbs Indifferent Willpower Fatigue Doing Nothing Exhaustion Descent Ascent Freezing

Author:Reinhold Messner

“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.”

Hard Government Simple Poor Rich Economic Conflict Resources Miracle British Peaceful Doing Nothing Get Rich Hong Kong

Book:Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

“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.”

Ifs Company Solitude Waste Meetings Encounters Introvert Doing Nothing

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“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.”

“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.”

Want Inspirational Whole Enemy Doing Nothing

Author:Gene Simmons

“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.”

People Want Shows Wanted Music Is Sitting Dancing Doing Nothing Just Do It Music Is My Life

Author:Austin Mahone

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

Different Order Challenges Great Things Doing Nothing

Author:Tracy McGrady

“The real risk is doing nothing.”

Real Motivational Risk Entrepreneur Doing Nothing

Author:Denis Waitley

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

Art Real Political Politics Doing Nothing Governing

Author:Laozi

“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.”

Ifs Way Said Stills Important Soul Hands Eye Grows Waiting Growing Up Shoulders Your Soul Allowing Toes Monk Doing Nothing

Book:When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions

Source: When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions

“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Mind Wells Children Said Whole Reality Seems School Imagination Walks Study Teacher Planets All Things Invention Doing Nothing Fertile Supposing

Author:Maria Montessori

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

Done Problem Doing Nothing Lethargy

Author:Bill Crawford

“Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.”

Littles Action Ambition Doing Nothing

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.”

Sometimes Reactions Doing Nothing Counterinsurgency

Book:Obama's Wars

Source: Obama's Wars

“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?”

Process Percent Resources Cycles Idle Doing Nothing Chewing Processors

Author:John C. Dvorak

“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. .”

People Ifs Wall Mad Retiring Doing Nothing Banging

Author:Abdul Qadeer Khan

“There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.”

Ends Dream Doing Nothing

Author:Laurence Overmire

“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.”

Beautiful Enjoy Walks Quality Particular Hair Walking Sitting Doing Nothing Loving Life Sauntering Restful Unmotivated Loving Deeply

Author:Rajneesh

“The sage acts by doing nothing.”

Taoism Sage Doing Nothing

Author:Laozi

“You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that as well. When Ive been beaten up, if Ive been in a pub doing nothing wrong, the fact I chose not to fight back, that I would never throw a punch back, people say Im weak. I dont think thats a weak thing at all. I think why should I descend to their level? If Ive done nothing wrong, throwing a punch back makes me as bad and corrupt as them. As evil as them, as stupid as them.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Wells Done Facts Fighting Evil Levels Stupid Like You Weak Throwing Aggressive Should I Beaten Doing Nothing Pubs

Author:Richey Edwards

“I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.”

Knows Motivation Successful Dad My Dad Bored Vacation Doing Nothing

Author:Tamara Ecclestone

“Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing”

Challenges Avoiding Doing Nothing Being Afraid

Author:Soichiro Honda

“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.”

Thinking Hard Done Walking Productions Closest Doing Nothing

Author:Rebecca Solnit

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

Writing Exceed Doing Nothing

Author:Alain de Botton

“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.”

Men World Wells Reason Beautiful Happiness Enjoy Meditation Sitting Oneself No Reason Beautiful Women Doing Nothing Joyous Outside World Simply Happy

Author:Rajneesh

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

Ifs Habit Rewards Laziness Doing Nothing

Author:Wes Fesler

“All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.”

Men Needs Done Evil Liberty Good Man Doing Nothing

Author:Edmund Burke

“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.”

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Author:Mark Hatfield

“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.”

Giving I Can Two Time Hours Stress Busy Doing Nothing Busy Life Scotty

Book:A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered

Source: A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered

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

Bigs Motivational Individual Mistake Sitting Doing Nothing Sitting Around Big Mistake

Author:John Wooden

“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.”

Thinking Whole Bigs Strong Danger Habit Madness Mad Whole Life Temptation Insanity Pretending Very Strong Doing Nothing Asylums

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.”

Belief Laziness Idleness Doing Nothing Being Free

Book:Were You Ever a Child?

Source: Were You Ever a Child?

“Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.”

Ifs Powerful Making Money Motive Better Off Doing Nothing

Author:Richard Branson

“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).”

Way Mean Doe Facts Waiting Perfect Lord Patient Vices Appearance Be Patient Doing Nothing Vice Versa Deceptive Timetables Wait For Him

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.”

Lying Meditation Doing Nothing

Author:Tom Sims

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

Voice Needed Doing Nothing Saying Nothing

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.”

Has Beens Waiting Realizing Loses Millions Gone Taken Our Lives Mad Granted Could Have Been Doing Nothing

Author:Melody Carlson

“I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.”

Needs Doing Nothing

Author:Pierre Reverdy

“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.”

Important Feelings Ought Difficulty Doing Nothing

Author:Brian Eno

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing.”

Hard Hard Work Earnest Doing Nothing Importance Of Being Earnest

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177

“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.”

Feels Matter Inspiration Running Motivation Right Now Cells Lazy Doing Nothing

Author:David Bolinsky

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