Mortimer Adler Quotes

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

When I was a boy, my father used to criticize me for - it's hard to translate - I guess you could say 'mindless time.' Thinking what to do. I need to be bored so I can be pushed into doing something.

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

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.

When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.

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've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

Idling is not my strong suit.

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

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

I am terribly lazy. So, if I don't have to get out of the house, I will sleep away the entire day.

When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.

I'm just generally lazy.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

I'm just really a lazy homebody.

I'm quite lazy.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.