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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job. — Manny Pacquiao

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. — Erykah Badu

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing. — Jenny Joseph

In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges. — Tracy McGrady

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner. — Barry Goldwater

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing. — Esther Hicks

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

Doing the Right Thing - Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all. — Mike Kafka

Not anymore, ese. What ju was doing? Ju didn't go to work today, but here ju are lazy ass drinking cerveza like nothing. — Sai Marie Johnson

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience. — Neil Gaiman

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work. — Brandon Sanderson

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon — Oscar Wilde

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have. — Ralph Marston

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing. — Osho

The Son f can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father [5] does, that the Son does likewise. — Anonymous

I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life. — Meredith Brooks

What I like doing best is Nothing. — A.A. Milne

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. — Seneca The Younger

We're generally quite good at doing something, but we're really bad at doing nothing. — John Ortberg

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option. — Lee H. Hamilton

Nothing wrong with looking like a fool if what you are doing is far from foolish. — Paulo Coelho

The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem. — Bob Richardson

Nothing can be done to you without your permission. — Bryant McGill

There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming. — Laurence Overmire

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. — Gertrude Stein

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent. — Rabindranath Tagore

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove. — Sid Caesar

Moodling is daydreaming, letting your mind wander, losing track of time, and, in the most severe cases...doing nothing" -Dill — Paige Britt

Nothing that is worth doing is ever easy. — Ruzwana Bashir

I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music. — G-Dragon

The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater. — Diane Chamberlain

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing. — Antonio Banderas

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing. — Zhuangzi

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty. — David Berliner

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing. — Jane Austen

Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up. — Hermann Hesse

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse? — Hannah More

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something. — Austin Kleon

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. — John Malkovich

The difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything. — Chrissy Anderson

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving. — John Dewey

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished. — Nelson DeMille

Hurry up and do nothing, that was the army's way of doing things. — Bernard Cornwell

Nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible. — Oscar Wilde

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. — William Barclay

So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all... — Saul Bellow

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Doing their job, said Cora. Keeping us safe.
Nothing safer than dead, said Rita, angrily. — Margaret Atwood

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. — Peter F. Drucker

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing. — Ian McEwan

It is better moving up to your goal and falling than not falling doing nothing — Qaiser Abbas

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves. — Brad Warner

Life seems to be busy for most people and if you know you are doing the best you can then there really is nothing more you can do then that. — Miranda Kerr

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing. — John Clare

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN. — Mark Wahlberg

But we got through it. Together. It didn't happen overnight and it wasn't easy.
Nothing worth doing ever is.
And love is worth everything — Madeline Sheehan

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing. — Jorge Cruise

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing. — Anita Pallenberg

I'm left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there's nothing unskilled about labor. — Colin Cotterill

Nothing worth doing right is easy. — Mike Matheny

Doing nothing is as good as collaborating. — Anthony Doerr

Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it. — Bootsy Collins

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished. — Nelson DeMille

Time means nothing.Time is just the way we measure the gaps between not knowing something and knowing it or not doing something and doing it. — Richard Bach

[T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it. — Malcolm Muggeridge

You're still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom. — Toba Beta

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing. — Pat Paulsen

Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing. — Artie Lange

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing. — Bram Stoker

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing. — Terry Eagleton

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

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me. — Kate Grenville

Nothing worth doing — Maggie Stiefvater

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle — Danielle LaPorte

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well. — Peter Drucker

I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing. — Vashti Bunyan

She would never blame him for being the ineffectual idler so long as he did it sincerely, from the attitude that nothing much was worth doing — F Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing is worth doing pointlessly. — Marcus Aurelius

Nothing will make you look like an idiot faster than the fact that you don't know what you doing. — Auliq Ice

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing. — Daniel Radcliffe

Do precedes done.
No precedes none. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious. — Maurice Blanchot

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people. — Thomas Sowell

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson

Christ, Damien. How am I supposed to do anything today other than want you?" "Sweetheart, there's nothing else today that you need to be doing. — J. Kenner

We've been on a long break and I've just been kicking back, doing nothing. Like our government. — Bill Maher

We can't stay here. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. — Andy Andrews

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. — Evan Esar

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke

You have to learn to convince yourself that the possibility is greater than the inevitability of doing nothing. Listen, — Steve Harvey

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act. — Ian Hacking

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours. — Steve Harvey

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing. — Adam McKay

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. — George Bernard Shaw

There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell. — J.J. Abrams

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies. — Gene Simmons

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?' — Demi Lovato

Much of the stress you experience may be created by recognizing a problem and doing nothing about it. — Wess Roberts

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. — Twyla Tharp

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar