Laziness Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• The idle man is the devil's cushion.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Devil, Idle

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.60

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• It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

  Carl Jung

  Feet, Lazy, Individuality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

  Chip Heath

  People, Looks, Surprise

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• Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth – O God of truth, deliver us.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Prayer, Thinking, Zest

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• The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Evil, Battle, Weakness

  Alexander McCall Smith (2005). “Friends, Lovers, Chocolate”, Pantheon

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• Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

  John Hagee

  Get Up, Gods Will, Asks

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• Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

  Carlo Collodi

  Growing Up, Men, Lazy Man

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• Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

  Neal Boortz

  Block, Office, Achievement

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• Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Honesty, Book, Mean

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