Quotes About Inaction

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience.

She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They never forgive you.

And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.

She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it.

maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.

maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

A veces haces algo y estas jodido, y otras estás jodido por lo que no haces.

A veces haces algo y estás jodido, y otras, estás jodido por lo que no haces.

Here's how we do things in America: We identify a problem, then we promptly ignore it until it's not just biting our ass, but it's already eaten the right cheek and has started on the left.

I'm just saying, nobody does anything. And the shootings keep coming. Malls, movie theaters, churches, synagogues, fuckin' everywhere. If the needle didn't move for a bunch of dead elementary schoolkids, it's never gonna move.

because for him to do nothing was to undermine his own dignity.

life allowed to waste like a tap left running.

Thank God, Helen, I'm not like you! I sometimes think you don't think or feel or care to do anything but exist! You're like Mr. Hirst. You see that things are bad, and you pride yourself on saying so. It's what you call being honest; as a matter of fact it's being lazy, being dull, being nothing. You don't help; you put an end to things.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

All that caring about what happens next.' He waited. 'Now nothing happens next.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Let sleeping dogs lie—who wants to rouse 'em?

He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.

New-England weather — it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done.

The situation on Earth today is too dire for us to act from habit—to reenact again and again the same kinds of solutions that brought us to our present extremity. Where does the wisdom to act in entirely new ways come from? It comes from nowhere, from the void; it comes from inaction. When we see it, we realize it was right in front of us all along. It is never far away; yet at the same time it is in a different universe—a different Story of the World.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

We are only able to continue our ravaging of the planet under the cover of pretense. How is it that we as a society take no action, when the awful artifacts of our way of life on this planet lay strewn all around us? How is it that we continue to hurtle toward an obvious abyss? It is only because we have been rendered blind and insensate.

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.