Laziness Quotes - Page 3

• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Night, Sloth, Poverty

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.6

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• Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.

  Lev Landau

  Clever, Happy Life, Way

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• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, Power, Psychics

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• Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

  Campbell Scott

  Work, Lazy, Sometimes

  "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part II" by Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2001.

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• Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Lazy, Leisure

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• Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wish, Good Wishes, Attainment

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• You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Art, Lazy, Done

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2017

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• Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sloth, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Negativity is basically laziness.

  RuPaul

  Negativity

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• I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

  Bernard Williams

  Humorous, Lazy Man, Profound

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• Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

  Megan Martha White

  Truth, Lazy, Knows

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  People, Effort, Lazy

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• When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

  Jesse Jackson

  Depression, Work, Racism

  Quoted in David Frost, The Americans (1970)

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• We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Lazy, Inferiors

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark V, p. 267, 1732.

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• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, School, Guessing

  The Process of Education (p. 14)

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• I think of myself as a very lazy author.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Lazy, Literature

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• Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sloth, Virtue, Crime

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.173

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• For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

  Michael Gambon

  Lazy, Theatre, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

  Susan Powter

  Hard Work, Mean, Men

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• When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

  Walter Annenberg

  Blessing, Ties, Boredom

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• There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

  Ajay Devgan

  Media, Effort, Lazy

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• I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.

  Eva Green

  Fitness, Running, Dog

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• It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

  Leslie Charteris

  Writing, Lazy, Literature

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• I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, Lazy, Welfare

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