Laziness Quotes
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"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
"I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am."
"From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge."
"Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness."
"I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?"
"As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly."
"knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead."
"A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother."
"The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with."
"We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living."
"Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down."
"Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value."
"Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless."
"I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out."
"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."
"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."
"God does not like lazy people, He likes those who work"
"If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business."
"You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance"
"My get-up-and-go often leaves without me."
"If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree"
"His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political."
"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."
"I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen."
"The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination."
"The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense."
"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays."
"It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. “The same procedure as every year, James!” ("Things needing to be changed")"
"In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases."
David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
"It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain."
"Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness."
"But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up."
"The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country."
"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"
"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
"If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor"
"HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it."
Arthur Bloch, Il secondo libro di Murphy : nuovi motivi per cui le cose vanno storte
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
"Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness."
"From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labor comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation."
Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
"Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up!"
"In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris"
George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
"You just became the most interesting person at this party. I don't think anyone here has worked an honest day in their lives."
"Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination!"
"Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless!"
"Forbid statements like “will God ever meet me?”, “am I worthy of his blessings?”, “I am not sure God will bless me”, “what shows that I am blessed?”. These statements clearly tell that you are not aware of who you are in the first place."
"People may say it is better to face problems in life but I say run if you believe you can run faster."
"An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses."
"Don’t be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out."
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