Doing Nothing Quotes
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“I’ve been nothing but kind to you. I’m not some sort of monster.”
“No, you’re the man who sits idly by, congratulating yourself on your decency, while the monster eats his fill. At least a monster has teeth and a spine.”
― Crooked Kingdom
“No, you’re the man who sits idly by, congratulating yourself on your decency, while the monster eats his fill. At least a monster has teeth and a spine.”
― Crooked Kingdom

“The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything”
― Clockwork Prince
― Clockwork Prince

“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.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Your few days together have been spent doing nothing really, which is something, is an intimacy in itself.”
― Open Water
― Open Water

“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.”
― The Memory of Love
― The Memory of Love

“Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.”
― When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
― When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

“Peter does what he usually does when he doesn’t know what to do next: he gives up.”
― QualityLand
― QualityLand

“I have a peculiar capacity for doing nothing and yet enjoying myself.”
― The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen
― The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

“Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action,' Sophie remarked. 'If you do nothing, you'll be sending a clear message: that you're stronger than they think you are. Not to mention a lot classier. Think about it.”
― Crazy Rich Asians
― Crazy Rich Asians

“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when to sit doing nothing gives us a sense of life's richness and a feeling that the least effort would be intolerable. The melancholy we took with us to table has disappeared and, if we think of it at all it is only to smile, as at some black mood now past, its cause having gone. And with the melancholy, all scruple, all remorse departs from us.”
― Jean Santeuil
― Jean Santeuil

“I don't believe anything's really inevitable until it happens. We just call it inevitable to make ourselves feel better about it, to excuse ourselves for not having done anything.”
― The English Wife
― The English Wife

“These were desperate times, the two men agreed; it was easy to stay at home and pull the bedcovers over your heads, but if nothing was done, someone would rip the bedcovers from your face and tug you naked into the street.”
― Little
― Little

“...this evening it's too late, too late to get things right, I'll go to sleep, so that I may say, hear myself say, a little later, I've slept, he's slept, but he won't have slept, or else he's sleeping now, he'll have done nothing, nothing but go on, doing what, doing what he does, that is to say, I don't know, giving up, that's it, I'll have gone on giving up, having had nothing, not being there.”
― Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976
― Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose 1950-1976

“Releasing resistance to allow miracles to manifest is not about sitting back and doing nothing. It is about stepping back, and doing something.”
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“You don’t get lucky while sitting in the sofa with arms crossed doing nothing. You can be lucky only when you are prepared.”
― Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters
― Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters
“Free time allows building of reputations — either as someone who is excellent at killing time by doing nothing or someone who can utilize the time by creating things out of nothing.
People becoming habitual to doing nothing, get nothing at the end.”
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People becoming habitual to doing nothing, get nothing at the end.”
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“What you do today will affect you 90 days from now.”
― Stop The Madness: How the Highly Sensitive Person Can Thrive in a Chaotic World
― Stop The Madness: How the Highly Sensitive Person Can Thrive in a Chaotic World

“We’ve been good friends for years. We eat to together once a week on average. We’ve gone on holidays together. We’ve known each other well enough and long enough to have developed a natural ease and familiarity with one another. They’re the kind of people I can quite happily spend time with doing nothing at all. I’m quite serious. It’s not unusual to find us sitting together, all reading books and barely talking for a couple hours or so. We have an unspoken rule that it’s entirely okay to doze off on each other’s couches.”
― 7 Myths about Singleness
― 7 Myths about Singleness

“And having people with whom to do nothing is not necessarily a need [married people are] conscious of.”
― 7 Myths about Singleness
― 7 Myths about Singleness

“The greatest accomplishment of a human, a busy primate, is to be able to spend hours and hours without doing anything.”
― The Sovereign Artist: Meditations on Lifestyle Design
― The Sovereign Artist: Meditations on Lifestyle Design

“If we can do things to want nothing, do nothing, and become nothing whilst filling ourselves completely with life, then it’s probably pretty REAL; if we’re doing it to want ‘more’, do ‘more’, and become ‘more’, then we might be lapsing into being UNREAL.”
― Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
― Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
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