The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.
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.
The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. It's an essentially corrupt society.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.
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.
I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
Easy come, easy go. . . "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.
I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.
Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.
I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.
Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.