Neal Cassady Quotes

All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

I enjoy doing nothing.

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

the beauty of doing nothing

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

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.

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.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

I'm quite lazy.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.