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Letter "D" » doing nothing
«Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
afternoon, boring, discontent, doing nothing, Eden, glorious, hillside, link, paradise, sit back
«[It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but the danse macabre in this political jungle of ours.»
Author: Wole Soyinka
(Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
Africa, danse macabre, doing nothing, jaundiced, jungle, macabre, vaunt, vaunted, vaunts
«Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
avoid, criticism, criticisms, doing nothing, easily, saying
«Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
avoid, dead, dead end, Dead Ends, defeat, delay, delaying, detour, detours, doing nothing, saying, teacher, temporary, The Detours, The Undertaker, undertaker, undertakers
«Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.»
«A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.»
«Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.»
Author: Winnie the Pooh
| About:
Appreciation,
Cute,
Listening
| Keywords:
bothering, doing nothing, listening, underestimate
«A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
doing nothing, honorable, making, mistakes, not only, spent, useful
«Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing»
«Doing nothing is doing evil»
Author: Proverb
| Keywords:
doing nothing
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