Top 100 Quotes About Not Doing Anything
#1. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
Leo Szilard
#3. You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything. Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.
Emma Bull
#4. I reflected, not for the first or last time, that when you are reading, others think they can disturb you because you are not doing anything.
James Tipton
#5. Go lie down" I told them. You're both exhausted, and we're not doing anything else tonight. Get some rest.
Puck snorted "My, aren't we bossy today," he said though it lack his over energy. "Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head."
(Meghan & Puck)
Julie Kagawa
#6. Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.
Alexandra Potter
#7. If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
Nat Wolff
#8. You must love her very much to be willing to do all this." He twisted his head slightly and held her gaze. "I'm not doing anything for her that I've not done for her before.
Lorraine Heath
#9. We're not doing anything today, obviously," Adam said. "Do you want to hang out?" Blue looked around for a couch. It would be easier to hang out with a couch.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. If you haven't made a mistake I cast a jaundiced eye, because you're probably not doing anything.
John Peterman
#11. Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly, saying 'What? I'm not doing anything.
Jade Sharma
#12. sex takes the consent of two
if one person is lying there not doing anything
cause they are not ready
or not in the mood
or simply don't want to
yet the other is having sex
with their body it's not love
it is rape
Rupi Kaur
#13. Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#14. If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new
Penelope Trunk
#15. 35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing."
But trying is better than not doing anything at all.
Kcat Yarza
#16. If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden
#17. I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
Martin Freeman
#18. If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.
Sam Phillips
#19. There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
M. Night Shyamalan
#20. When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
Will Ferrell
#21. I don't compare myself to Lil Kim. I'm not doing anything in comparison with any girls. I'm doing Nicki Minaj.
Nicki Minaj
#22. Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.
Bill Maher
#23. Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.
Khleo
#24. I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.
Dominic Monaghan
#25. In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.
Buddy Rice
#26. I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My problem with comedy is to want to clown it up, but she's the funny one. Those are her jokes, not mine. For me, it's a lot of not doing anything. I just don't want to muck it up.
John Cho
#27. The big question now is who will take power in Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. I was thinking, how about Al Gore? He's not doing anything, he needs a job, and he's already got the beard.
Jay Leno
#28. Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.
Helen Mirren
#29. Not knowing the right thing to do is not an excuse for not doing anything.
Julie Buxbaum
#30. Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.
Branch Rickey
#31. I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.
Tori Spelling
#32. Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything.
W. Bruce Cameron
#33. If they aren't hating on you, then you're not doing anything right. If women aren't jealous of you, talking about you and cutting you down, then you're a nerd, and I would never want to be that.
Heidi Montag
#34. I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.
Patrick Stump
#35. Jeeves."
"Sir?"
"Are you busy just now?"
"No, sir."
"I mean, not doing anything in particular?"
"No, sir. It is my practice at this hour to read some improving book; but, if you desire my services, this can easily be postponed, or, indeed, abandoned altogether.
P.G. Wodehouse
#36. Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.
Miranda Cosgrove
#38. Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.
Jane McGonigal
#39. But if you sit around thinking what to do and end up not doing anything, why bother even thinking about it? You're better off going out on the town and having a good time. No, we have to think and act. That's what we're doing here, and that's what you have to do.
Elvia Alvarado
#40. I'm not doing anything with him." "Well, maybe you should. Just don't tell me about it. And make sure there's at least a one million dollar donation to MCA involved.
Zack Love
#41. If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.
Eugene H. Peterson
#42. I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.
Persis Khambatta
#43. I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.
Elmore Leonard
#44. Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
Waris Dirie
#45. I'm not doing anything that hasn't been done before, you know...dying, it's been done to death.
Sondra Lynn
#46. There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.
Sarah McLachlan
#47. We're not doing anything until I find my sister,' I say
Richelle Mead
#48. But she felt as though whatever she'd been given in the Devil's Country it was affecting her mind, not her body, and it was not doing anything remotely healing. Quite the reverse.
Clive Barker
#49. I would tell you that you looked really hot today when I saw you naked, but that probably wouldn't be appropriate, being as we're in bed together but not doing anything.
Stark - Hunted
P.C. Cast
#50. When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.
Katherine Boo
#51. Why would I want to help them (the T -Wolves) win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed.
Latrell Sprewell
#52. I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
Jonny Greenwood
#53. I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.
Mike Tyson
#54. In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant pond that has algae and mildew and weird animal cells, and I felt like if I sat around not doing anything long enough, that I'd probably end up going a little bit crazy.
Josh Jones
#55. Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence ... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; anxiety enters immediately. How to do? What to do? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future.
Rajneesh
#56. I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.
Marilyn Manson
#57. Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.
Frederick Lenz
#58. I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.
Lee Pace
#59. If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
Timothy Keller
#60. I'm not doing anything, baby. I love you. I'm being faithful to you." He held up his ring, his thumb stroking the metal. "I promised ... I promise
S.C. Stephens
#61. I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything - just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars.
John Green
#62. Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures.
Jean M. Auel
#63. I don't think I'm a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I'll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that's it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra.
Shamir
#64. I knew that I was not doing anything wrong, and I knew in my mind I was doing the right thing. I knew that the people who were going against me were not going against me for a good purpose. I knew that they were trying to justify their corruption and misgovernance.
Wangari Maathai
#65. I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo Coelho
#66. India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on ... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.
Subramanian Swamy
#67. You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.
Geoff Stults
#68. People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about.
Jayson Engay
#69. You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.
Vivian Gornick
#70. I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating on it. He's all for it, but he's not doing anything about it. I am certain that his behavior is at the center of the Twins' frustration.
Steven Schier
#71. I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide.
Ashton Kutcher
#72. Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.
Frederick Lenz
#73. If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
#74. It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.
Craig Zobel
#75. To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything.
Nick Cave
#76. I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.
Henry Rollins
#77. You're killing me here, Sage!" "I'm not doing anything." "Exactly my point.
Richelle Mead
#78. I think there's nothing wrong with eating all the time. At least i'm not doing anything illegal.
Niall Horan
#79. I know I shouldn't let him, but it all feels so good, so exciting, that I keep telling myself I'm not doing anything all that wrong.
Jessica Warman
#80. He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
Pierce Brown
#81. From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success ... I'm just here to cash in.
Bill Watterson
#82. You want to do a few things really well because you want to come out with a product that is fully baked, even though it may be lacking in a few features or whatever, rather than the one that's all-achieving but not doing anything too well.
Ram Shriram
#83. When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time ... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas ... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
Arthur C. Clarke
#84. I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.
Leonard Cohen
#85. The basic work schedule for me is whenever I'm not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it's most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.
Adrian Tomine
#86. When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way ... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
Quentin Tarantino
#87. Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
Edward Snowden
#88. It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
Owen Hart
#89. Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.
Nicola Yoon
#90. I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.
Anthony Horowitz
#91. You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.
Jack LaLanne
#92. When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.
Linn Ullmann
#93. ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul.
Rand Paul
#94. Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
Sean Penn
#95. I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.
Max Lucado
#96. Dreaming isn't bad for you but not doing anything to craft your dream is.
Mohith Agadi
#97. Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
Finn Wittrock
#98. Being alive, you have to do something. Not doing anything is also some kind of action.
Jeff Bridges
#99. When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.
Kris Carr
#100. I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.
Sharon Van Etten
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