Unproductive Time Quotes

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

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.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

I think a lot of games in Oakland were just time being wasted, for a lack of a better phrase. I felt like I would play in some games that were four quarters, just like every other game, but it didn't feel like I was doing anything. It just felt like I was out there.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn't correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

I just sit around at home, and I have nothing to do, so I am on the Internet all the time.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.

So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.

I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.