"I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing."
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"Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work."
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"The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all."
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"I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working."
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"Voting for the right is doing nothing for it."
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"I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do."
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"By doing nothing we learne to do ill."
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"The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society."
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"Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary."
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"Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]"
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"I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing"
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"the beauty of doing nothing"
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"Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all."
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"Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical"
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"If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going."
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"If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can."
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"Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing."
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"Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing."
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"... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing."
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"I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored."
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