Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

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

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.

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.

I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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

What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

I really do not like more than a week or two of down time.

If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.

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.

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.