Quotes About Inaction

Now she did not even wish to try, for fear of rousing up something terrible.

Nothing happened; yet there were disturbing signs and portents.

It was too late to go to Gaze now, everyone would be in bed. It was a comforting thought. Whatever was happening it was not happening now. There was nothing he could do now. Sleep was overwhelming him again, great clouds and folds of sleep like a warm fog.

it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.

I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your own business and not be interested anymore.

That's why I must be mayor and high priest. I'm the only man who knows how to fight the crisis." Jael swallowed dryly. "How? What are you going to do?" "Nothing." Jael smiled uncertainly. "Really! All of that!" But Mallow's answer was incisive. "When I'm boss of this Foundation, I'm going to do nothing. One hundred percent of nothing, and that is the secret of this crisis.

Un robot no debe dañar a un ser humano o, por su inacción, dejar que un ser humano sufra daño.

When I'm boss of this Foundation, I'm going to do nothing. One hundred percent of nothing, and that is the secret of this crisis.

Las Tres Leyes de la Robótica de Asimov» y son las siguientes: 1. Un robot no puede hacer daño a un ser humano, o, por medio de la inacción, permitir que un ser humano sea lesionado. 2. Un robot debe obedecer las órdenes recibidas por los seres humanos, excepto si estas órdenes entrasen en conflicto con la Primera Ley. 3. Un robot debe proteger su propia existencia en la medida en que esta protección no sea incompatible con la Primera y la Segunda Ley.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.