Sometimes Doing Nothing Is The Best Advice, Don’t Grab a Falling Knife
“Taking time to do nothing often brings everything into perspective.”
Doe Zantamata
Notable Quotes
“The sage acts by doing nothing.”
Laozi
“Doing nothing often leads to the very best something.”
Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
“Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least”
Giorgio Vasari
“Life is all about balance. You don’t always need to be getting stuff done. Sometimes it’s perfectly okay, and absolutely necessary, to shut down, kick back, and do nothing.”
Lori Deschene
“Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it’s OK to do nothing.”
Izey Victoria Odiase
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
Lao Tzu
“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“If you don’t know what to do, do nothing”
Mark Cuban
According to Eric Speir--People who don’t have good motives won’t wait long because they’re not interested in the commitment it takes to see something through. They’re too interested in short-term gains or success. Patience in waiting for small things leads to having patience in the bigger things. We tend to appreciate things the longer we have to wait for them.
Your Brain Really Needs A Break--We are all pretty overstimulated in this day and age. We might as well be existing in a perpetual state of informational overload. In fact, a 2010 survey by LexisNexis discovered that many of us spend more than half of our work day’s simply receiving and digesting information.
In his paper Doing Nothing and Nothing to Do: The Hidden Value of Empty Time and Boredom, Manfred Kets De Vries, a Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change, states that: “Doing nothing is a great way to induce states of mind that nurture our imagination… seemingly inactive states of mind can be an incubation period for future bursts of creativity.”
Suggested Reading
The Art of Doing Nothing: Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself by Veronique Vienne
When Nothing Works Try Doing Nothing: How learning to let go will get you where you want to go by Dr. Frank J. Kinslow
Point of Reflection
“When you have to make a decision and do not make it, that is in itself a decision”
William James