102 Quotes About Doing-nothing

Nothing to do is itself a great doing.

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.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

"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."

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.