Unproductive Activity Quotes

Do not conuse motion with progress. A rocking horse makes a creates a lot of motion but goes nowhere. We are facing a "rocking hourse Presidency".

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

It offends me when people do useless work.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing.

Sometimes, I hate-watch television.

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

It was a waste of time to sit on the bench in London.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.

I don’t want to have to go out and play golf with someone before I can get anything done.

I'm really bad, I watch reality TV sometimes - I just think it's the best form of escape.