Mary Wilson Little Quotes

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

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

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 am capable of being idle.

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

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

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.

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

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

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

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive.

For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around, not shower, hardly even eat, and just watch TV.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

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.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

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