Lazy Quotes - Page 8

• That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

  James Alan Gardner

  Leadership, Stupid, Play

  James Alan Gardner (2017). “The League of Peoples Books 1–3: Expendable, Commitment Hour, and Vigilant”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Funny, Women, Hands

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.53, BookBaby

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• What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Believe, Sleep, Things In Life

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• The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Lazy Man, Trying

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• I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Wall, Thinking, Glasses

  "Karl Lagerfeld: 'I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better'" by Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2014.

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• What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.

  Steve Coogan

  Hands, People, Clubs

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by.

  James Van Fleet

  Success, People, Effort

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.55, Penguin

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• Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sloth, Laziness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone's really lazy in L.A.

  Skeet Ulrich

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• Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

  Michel de Certeau

  Death, Men, Lazy Man

  Michel de Certeau, Steven Rendall (1988). “Arts de Faire”, p.190, Univ of California Press

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• Programmers can be lazy.

  Larry Wall

  Programmers

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• One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

  Chuck D

  Years, Hip Hop, Able

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• I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

  Allen Carr

  Believe, Get Up, Havens

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• How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

  Joshua Foer

  Short Life, Talking, Iphone

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• A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Lazy Man, Wife

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• Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Heart, Trying, Poet

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• I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

  Rhonda Byrne

  Jobs, Government, People

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• I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

  David Morrissey

  Thinking, Bed, Careful

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• HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

  Rob Brezsny

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.7, Frog Books

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• I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

  Barbara Park

  Good Life, Hate, Nudge Nudge

  "Galley Girl Catches Up With Barbara Park". Interview With Galley Girl, content.time.com. October 20, 2005.

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• You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Real, War

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• In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

  Francis Crick

  Math, Logic, Reasoning

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• The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Games

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• I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

  Abraham Lincoln

  Writing, Sermons

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• Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

  Mary Quant

  Thinking, Lazy People, Want

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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