Laziness Quotes - Page 14

• Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'

  Shantideva

  Procrastination, Waiting, Done

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• There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

  Vance Havner

  Son, Bigger And Better, Trends

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• The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

  Geshe Gyeltsen

  Determination, Buddhist, Attitude

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• No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

  Clovis Chappell

  Hurt, Men, Duty

  CLOVIS G. CHAPPELL (1970). “SORMONS ON BIBLICAL CHARACTERS”

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• Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Body, Given

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• Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy and stupid are not concepts used in forecasting. When people say they're really stupid or they're crazy, that's laziness. That means I don't want to think through their position or about what they're really going to do.

  George Friedman

  Stupid, Crazy, Mean

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Government, Punishment

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• You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with.

  Dane Cook

  Running, Lazy, Use

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• We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

  Greg Giraldo

  Pride, Lazy, Culture

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• Faith is intellectual laziness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Intellectual Laziness

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• Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Selfishness, Incentives, Diligence

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• True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Boredom, Everyday, Will Power

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• It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

  Winston Churchill

  Space, Reasonable, Sheer

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.694, Delphi Classics

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• Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

  Dane Cook

  Beautiful, Girl, War

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  "Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Which is so important, I mean, that's what's so great about the books, is, you know, those two worlds are sort of, the slacker world of just comedy and laziness and then this crazy, over the top action, supernatural world, and you know, combined.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Crazy, Book, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades.

  Adam Reed

  Phones, Cells, Clothes

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Rivers, Lines

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• To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Real, Blow, Everyday

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• Tradition is laziness.

  Gustav Mahler

  Tradition

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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Retirement, Business

  "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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• He that rises late must trot all day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Kick Ass, Late

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

  Billy Graham

  Bores You, Boredom, Done

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• It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

  Michael Haneke

  Perspective, Disease, Critics

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