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.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years.
The hardest work of all - doing nothing.
I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing
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?
. . . the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.
We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.
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.
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.
The command is "Do no work. " Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.
Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.
Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
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.
If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.