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To me, meditation sounds a whole lot like doing nothing. I don't do nothing. I pack every second of every day with something that can get done. — Lisa Genova

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else. — John C. Maxwell

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing. — Malcolm Bradbury

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more! — Ben Feldman

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin. — Bill Maher

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing — Savielly Tartakower

I pity you who are my companions, because you think that you are doing something when in reality you are doing nothing. — Plato

doing nothing is more expedient than doing something. - — Friedrich Nietzsche

I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on. — David Levithan

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up. — Laurie Notaro

The will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on doing nothing. — Hannah Arendt

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

Doing nothing can cause as much damage as doing something. — Jenn Bennett

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. — Simon Sinek

... there's nothing in the world more fun than doing something you're good at. — Clive Barker

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch. — Irving Paul Lazar

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. — Prince Charles

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

Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something! — Jonathan Safran Foer

I ride because there's nothing like in the world. It's a passion. It's something I absolutely have to do and I can never imagine not doing it. — Alonzo Bodden

There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing — Francis Macdonald Cornford

Watching something is nothing like doing it. — Paul Newman

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre. — Lena Dunham

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better. — David Knopfler

There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all. — Orson Scott Card

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something" - Trammell Crow — Clyde Wolpe

You can't sit next to me doing nothing while I'm trying desperately to save myself by doing something. — David B.

But all is forgotten and I have done nothing, unless what I am doing now is something, and nothing could give me greater satisfaction. — Samuel Beckett

When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it. — Caragh M. O'Brien

Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another. — John Wooden

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

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 is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. — Twyla Tharp

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

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

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

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

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

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something. — Laura Lippman

Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last. — Amy Carmichael

As my friend, Herb Gardner, once said about writing, "Don't they realize they're paying us for doing something we'd be thrilled to do for nothing? — David V. Picker

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. — J.M. Barrie

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot. — Fennel Hudson

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. — Michael Bassey Johnson

It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it. — Myles Munroe

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

Talking is nothing. Doing is something. — Hlovate