Laziness Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Keys, House

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• Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

  Steven Morrissey

  Determination, Animal, Order

  "Autobiography" by Steven Morrissey, London: Penguin Classics, 2013.

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• Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.

  Tony Horwitz

  Islamic, Justice, Car

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• That man is idle who can do something better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Idle, Something Better

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• The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted by stimuli that he can’t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.

  Kate Kelly

  Sight, Opposites, Smell

  Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo (2006). “You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  Kajol

  Home, Sloth, Wish

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• Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Idle, Idleness

  Samuel Johnson (1826). “The Rambler (1750-'52) a. the Idler (1758-'60)”

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• My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Guy, Comic

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• A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Erosion

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.103, Penguin

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• It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Sleep, Thinking

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• Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Reform, Way, Ants

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• Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Recognition, Philosopher

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• 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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• Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Guarantees

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 15, 2014

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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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• I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

  Lore Segal

  Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Children, Couple, Moving

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• Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Lazy Man, Progress

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.61, Penguin

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• The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

  Jon Stewart

  Media, Conflict, Mainstream

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2011.

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• The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.

  Emily Carr

  Beach, Waiting, Way

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.247, D & M Publishers

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• I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Lazy, Asks

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