Rebecca Solnit Quotes

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

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

I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore.

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

All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.

In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing.

I enjoy doing nothing.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

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

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

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.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

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

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

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.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

The very actions themselves can be a meditation. For me, walking is certainly a meditation if I walk for awhile. First my mind is busy and I'm thinking about different things and after a while that starts to fall away and I start to become very present in the moment. And that feeling of being present in the moment is being. That's when we know we're connecting with being energy.

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.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.