Laziness Quotes - Page 20

• The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Exercise, Doors

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.407, Vintage

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Strange, Strikes

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin

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• Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Culture, Pals, Destroying

  Scott Westerfeld (2005). “So Yesterday”, p.53, Penguin

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• The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Savages

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.113, David M Gross

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• Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Men, Lazy Man, Spirit

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• It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

  Vin Scully

  Lazy, Easier, Runners

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• God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

  Dennis Potter

  Thinking, Names, Lazy

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• I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

  Dan Gable

  Attitude, Progress, High Standards

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

  Rich Mullins

  Spiritual, Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves

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• Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

  Ben Bradlee

  Thinking, Editors, Lazy

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

  Maxwell Rosenlicht

  Math, Lazy, Reason

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• We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Brave, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

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• A writer's work is the product of laziness.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Products

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• the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Long Ago, Long, Doe

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

  Fanny Lewald

  Impossible, Sin, Indolence

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• Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Lazy, Dare

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• Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

  Julia Cameron

  Procrastination

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Dec 28, 2013

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• Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Lying, Hard Work, Lazy People

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• For the lazy, all work is difficult.

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

  Lazy, Difficult

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.211, Macmillan

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• It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.

  Justin Kirk

  Thinking, Wish, Television

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• We are not the slaves of laziness,
  we are the slaves of WiFi.

  Zelo

  Slave

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• The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

  Mason Cooley

  Lazy, Rotation, Earth

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• Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Land, Support

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• Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

  Galen

  Blood

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