“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
Nelson DeMille (1943) American writer
Variant: The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
“A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.”
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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
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