Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious. "
Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.
What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.
I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.
Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.
The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.
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.
Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.
Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness. . . Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.
I'm very much looking forward to doing nothing fixed, just riding for fun.
She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.
Doing nothing, badly.