Quotes About Inaction

Why don't they leave? Why do they stay to watch? And now I know. It's because you have to.

It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.

Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.

Bystanders In life you are either on the Side Lines or else in the Game. If you are on the Side Lines you are merely watching. You are inactive. You are contributing to your personal pleasure. If you are in the Game you are playing hard, you are getting pleasure and you are rendering Service. You will always get more pleasure out of the Game if you are a Player instead of a Bystander.

I've looked in history for heroes who became heroes for what they did not do, but it is hard to observe nonaction; I could not easily find any.

Greenspan's actions were harmful, but even if he knew that, it would have taken a bit of heroic courage to justify inaction in a democracy where the incentive is to always promise a better outcome than the other guy, regardless of the actual, delayed cost.

Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times.

Not understanding that doing nothing can be much more preferable to doing something potentially harmful.

There are few things he can stand less than a bunch of morons standing around looking at something that doesn't work and wondering who's going to fix it.

you have no idea, cousin, how many men can do it but won't.

Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.

If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves

The town could not talk, and would not listen. How'd you like to hear about the war? he might have asked, but the place could only blink and shrug. It had no memory, therefore no guilt. The taxes got paid and the votes got counted and the agencies of government did their work briskly and politely. It was a brisk, polite town. It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know.

Lo único que se necesita para que triunfe el mal es que los hombres de bien no hagan nada.»

It seems no body's business to try to better things

PLAYER : It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action, if that's your taste and times being what they are.

Ashamed of the insults that were being heaped on our friend, we just sat there: I picked toe jam, Frieda cleaned her fingernails with her teeth, and Pecola finger-traced some scars on her knee—her head cocked to one side.

Convinced that there is little they can do, they do little.

The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.

From action or inaction each one of us derives a gain or a loss and at the same time one causes a gain or a loss to some one else.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS?

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

But anyways I stopped to put gas in it, I haven't started it yet myself

Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.