Quotes About Inactivity

El domingo se levantaba más temprano aún para estar más tiempo sin hacer nada. El peor momento de su vida era el fin de la tarde de ese día: caía en una meditación inquieta, el vacío del domingo estéril.

Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it. If you were to recite even a single page in the open air, birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop dead.

Some days she slouched for endless hours on the sofa, yawning hugely, like someone suffering from terrible jet lag.

They were all just sitting here. Waiting. What were they meant to be doing? The desire to interact was an irresistible itch.

The way I see it, the world is divided into the watchers and the watchees, and there's more and more of the audience and less and less to see. People who actually do anything are a goddamned endangered species.

Dexter the sofa spud ...

Nel caso attuale, per tornare al foglietto illustrativo delle pillole contro il mal di fegato, ne presentavo tutti i sintomi, senza possibilità di errore, e il principale era "una generale avversione nei confronti di qualsiasi tipo di attività".

concern. "I did not see any activity—no one

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Some people would never get any exercise at all if they didn't have to walk to their cars.

somnolence, and on one occasion could not

Some people have to live while others get to sit this living thing out.

No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.

We're being paid to sit here and do nothing. So we feel all upset. First we stand up, then we sit down. We blame it on the heat, but it's really because we don't know what to do with ourselves.

La narrativa o mueve montañas o es aburrida; o mueve montañas o se sienta sobre su propio culo

Inaction counted as a choice.

There aren't always great things to do, and sometimes we maximize our contribution by being discerning and relatively inactive. Patient opportunism – waiting for bargains – is often your best strategy.

Pereza - La pereza de la adolescencia es un ensayo para la incapacidad de la vejez.

Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.

I would rather take a nap." "How could you possibly want a nap?" Pandora demanded, incredulous. "We've done nothing but sit all day." Cassandra was instantly defensive. "Doing nothing is exhausting. I need to rest in case we do nothing again later.

This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They became supernovas of nothingness that turned into black holes of pathetic shit as they sank in on themselves and disappeared from existance. People like that were not even missed.

"Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools"

In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.