Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

God is in the details.

For too much rest becomes a pain.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

The most exciting thing either of us does is nap.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

I am most scared of being bored