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Quotes About Inaction

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
~ Edward Abbey
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
~ Edward Abbey
The mind-set that mistakes are poisonous often freezes us into inaction
~ Edward B. Burger
The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
~ Anonymous
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
~ Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?
~ Anthony Doerr
Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?" "Doing nothing is doing nothing." "Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.
~ Anthony Doerr
Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?" "Doing nothing is doing nothing." "Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.
~ Anthony Doerr
I don't want to make trouble, Madame." "Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?" "Doing nothing is doing nothing." "Doing nothing is as good as collaborating." The
~ Anthony Doerr
He was like an actor in one of those plays from between the wars where everyone talks for a long time but very little happens.
~ Anthony Horowitz
not that anything very much ever happened.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I enjoy sometimes focusing on a character in a scene that's not actually doing the main action or the talking.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
Per lui, ogni goccia che cadeva era un attimo che moriva. Sentiva il tempo scorrere dentro di lui, e ogni istante non poteva esser più ricatturato. Sentì il bisogno di prendere una decisione, ma non aveva la forza di muoversi.
~ Frank Herbert
Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. The
~ Frank Herbert
Gördükleri kar??s?nda donup kalmak, hiç k?m?ldamamak isterdi; ama bu da birtak?m sonuçlar doÄŸuracak bir eylemdi.
~ Frank Herbert
Two alternatives: either to make oneself infinitesimally small, or to be so. The former is perfection and hence inaction; the latter a beginning and therefore action.
~ Franz Kafka
Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.
~ George Packer
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
~ David Brock
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
~ John F. Kennedy
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
~ John Stuart Mill
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
~ Rollo May
We felt it was really a dangerous world where you got punished for doing nothing.
~ Rona Jaffe
Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.
~ Lysa TerKeurst