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It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.


Gertrude Stein

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LESLIE FIEDLER if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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[with credit to Gertrude Stein]
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insu...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK ‎"Better to sit still, do nothing and come up with a plan... than to run around, doing everything ...
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III Doing nothing will get you nothing or a lot of what you don't want...
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about thi...
BILLY AL BENGSTON You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU With both plays, you have people standing around doing nothing while other people are doing terrible...
BARTLETT SHER Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capac...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing w...
MILAN KUNDERA A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to s...
JERRY SEINFELD When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much supplies us with plent...
CHINESE PROVERBS Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J.M. BARRIE Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
JAMES M. BARRIE Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
UNKNOWN Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
KENNETH GRAHAME There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
KENNETH GRAHAM He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSON We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
JEROME K. JEROME When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with ple...
CHINESE PROVERB You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things oc...
MORTIMER ADLER To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
CHINESE PROVERB I am having a good time doing nothing.
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NATHANIEL RATELIFF Don't invite me anywhere in the last minute. I enjoy doing nothing, so I need to know ahead of time ...
ANONYMOUS Doing nothing gets you nothing.
SEAN REICHLE A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwo...
JACK CANFIELD There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
TRAMMELL CROW There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
TRAMMELL CROW In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It takes a long time to understand nothing.
EDWARD DAHLBERG It takes a long time to understand nothing.
JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON I'm a birder. I've been using that as an excuse to go wandering around the world. I stand in the for...
HOWIE NIELSEN The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were suppos...
JAMES LOVELOCK It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
RAYMOND QUENEAU To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.
EDWARD KITSIS Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a ...
LUCY POWELL [It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I'...
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PHIL EVERLY A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re ...
CARROLL BRYANT We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now do...
NAVY QUOTE Andersen appears to be doing everything it can to turn this around but nothing is stopping the train...
ART BOWMAN Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It...
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I am not commanding you, but I ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just do...
SOFIA COPPOLA She didn't jump as well as we hoped she would. She's doing it part time and jumping takes so much ti...
BILL MUNRO Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
LAO TZU Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing
LAO TZU I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups be...
MORRISSEY Doing nothing can be more productive than doing something.
LORRIN L. LEE It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't h...
ED MCMAHON It's impossible to be neutral when even doing nothing is a decision.
LISA CYPERS KAMEN We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, have been asked to do so much with so little for so long th...
UNKNOWN The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. Yo...
DIANA VREELAND The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one d...
DARLENE LOVE Doing nothing with you means everything to me.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely d...
CRISS JAMI It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really...
ED MCMAHON Gertrude Stein -- as a lesbian, a Jew, an exile (and) a woman -- was someone who was indomitable in ...
FRANK GALATI There is a definite cost to doing nothing,
EDWARD LIVINGSTON Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something ...
KATE GRENVILLE These children have been through so much, and they're doing the best they can with what they have. I...
LISA STONE A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I enjoy doing nothing.
JEFFREY BERNARD I'm not lazy, I just really enjoy doing nothing.
ANONYMOUS It's all or nothing. You just have to react and go for it. You have no time to think, you just react...
MATT FLETCHER Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes ti...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes ti...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.
GEORGE MACDONALD Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishin...
BENJAMIN HAYDON Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishi...
BENJAMIN HAYDON Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
GARY HERBERT In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
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BEN STEIN To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our fo...
JILL STEIN Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger u...
BEN STEIN A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are...
BEN STEIN If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
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