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Quotes About Inactivity

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.
~ John Randolph of Roanoke
Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.
~ Aidan Chambers
supine neglect
~ Don Winslow
I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
At?l, hareketsiz duran yaÅŸam ölmeye eÄŸilimlidir; eÄŸer at?ll?k eksiksizse, ölüm gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ demektir.
~ Erich Fromm
Ramón quiso jugar a arrojar piedras a las zarzas, pero ella se negó;prefería continuar sentada sobre uno de los troncos, meneando las piernas y sintiéndose triste y perezosa
~ Espido Freire
always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
An enchantress always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret. -Margarita / The Time of Contempt
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Lo único que se lamenta es el haber sido inactivo, indeciso, vacilante. Aunque a veces la acción y la decisión producen pena y tristeza, una no se arrepiente de ellas nunca".
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly.
~ Giles Deacon
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
~ Erma Bombeck
War was about yawning chasms of inactivity, punctuated by brief, screaming interludes of action. And in those brief, screaming interludes, events happened both quickly and with dreamlike slowness, every instant burned into memory.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that "we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life" (p. 87).
~ Dr. Brian Ogawa
Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.
~ Dr. Seuss
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
~ Henry James
The benefits of a sustained fitness program decrease significantly after just one week of inactivity—and disappear altogether in as few as four weeks.
~ Jim Loehr
I had two managers who couldn't stand each other. I had a promoter, Don King, who couldn't get any fights, and I was fighting once a year. I knocked out Norton and then didn't fight for 13 months. Then I fight the heavyweight champion of the world.
~ Gerry Cooney
Jelly-bean is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when anybody does anything.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
No fighter wants to risk getting ring rust.
~ Robert Whittaker