Doing Nothing Quotes (page 7)

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• commitment
• quality
• bad

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. Mark McCormack

• interest
• generalization
• interestingly

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. Gertrude Stein

• family
• kindness
• work

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing. Tom Hooper

• doings
• wanted
• want

I don't do nothing I don't want to do. John Lee Hooker

• nothing
• worst thing
• can do

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing. Brad Henry

• saying
• moving
• wonderful

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it. Alice Cooper

• mistake
• corrects
• fail

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. Dale Turner

• business
• busy
• pretty

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing. Buzz Osborne

• help
• billionaire
• helpful

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy. Joe Walsh

• africa
• optional
• nothing

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

• world
• avoiding
• best

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

• thinking
• work
• home

I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine. Karl Malone

• faith
• little
• faithful

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. Samuel Butler

• faith
• little
• can do

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. Samuel Butler

• women
• credited
• credits

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy. Lucy Larcom