Ken Hakuta Quotes

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

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

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 the parent of psychology.

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

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

I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

I don't like not being busy.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

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

When you're bored, you get creative.

I write when I get bored, when I have nothing to do.

I'm the kind of person who needs to be challenged all the time. I need my brain to go, or else I just end up playing video games all day, you know? That's cool too, I guess, at times.