Jack Lowden Quotes

I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.

If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

I like to feel occupied.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

We are not put into the world to sit still and know, we are put in it to act.

I've never been one to enjoy just sitting around.

I love working. I love doing things. I don't like sitting.

I don't like idle time.

I'm no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

I hate getting bored.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.