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  • Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

    Running   Clever   Unique  
    Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

    People   Criminals   Doe  
  • The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

    Faith   Wise   Faithful  
    Vindiciae Gallicae sec. 1 (1791)
  • To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

    Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press
  • Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

    "Warren Buffett Has 2 Basic Rules That Investors Always Fail To Follow" by Robert Huerbscher, www.businessinsider.com. March 30, 2013.
  • Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much, but don`t be a doer - then you achieve both. Move in the world, but don`t be a part of it. Live in the world, but don`t let the world live in you. Then the contradiction has been absorbed. Then you are not rejecting anything, not denying anything. Then the whole God has been accepted.

    Karma   Moving   Mean  
  • You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

  • We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  • There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

    Military   Loss   Risk  
  • The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

    Opposites   Perfect   Bed  
    Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2009). “Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir”, p.27, Counterpoint
  • Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

    Play   Soar   Spectators  
  • Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

    "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.
  • Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

    Evil   May   Laziness  
    Hannah More (1857). “Complete Works”, p.332
  • Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

  • One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  • Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

  • Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

    Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada
  • The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.

    Winter   Ice   Snow  
  • It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

    Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.31, Shambhala Publications
  • If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.

  • Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

  • Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.

    Athlete   Hands   Play  
    Source: www.menshealth.com
  • I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

    Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Prayer: My Soul's Adventure with God”, Image
  • Procrastination is another form of resistance

    FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 29, 2011
  • The essence of decay is inactivity.

  • The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

  • Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

    Writing   Self   Laziness  
    Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.
  • Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.

    "President Welcomes President Chirac to White House". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 6, 2001.
  • In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  • Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

    "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.
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