James Herriot Quotes

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

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

I enjoy doing nothing.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

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

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head or hands. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance.

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

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

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.

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.

the beauty of doing nothing

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

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

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

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

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.