Laziness Quotes - Page 9

• If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Color, Drawing

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 81, 1964.

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• Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sleep, Dozing, Want

  "Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

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• Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Fashion, Art, Spring

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• It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

  Norm MacDonald

  Ill, Idle, Employed

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• In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Collapse

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• Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true. . . . The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Reality, Opposites

  Brennan Manning (2004). “The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus”, p.28, Revell

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• I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Responsibility, Learning

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• It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
  It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
  It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
  Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

  Louis MacNeice

  Country, Government, Years

  'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

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• When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Time, Order, Lazy

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• Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Powerful, Passion, Sloth

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• A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Pride, Giving

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• Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Hard Work, School, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.

  Matt Chandler

  Spiritual, Strong, Fighting

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Children, Doctors, Addiction

  "Sanjeev Bhaskar: Goodness, I'm home!". Interview with Tina Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home, because a guitar is just lying around, that's the guitar I pick up rather than actually choosing something. I try to plan ahead for my laziness by leaving interesting things scattered about. If I leave a baritone guitar lying around, that's the one I'll pick up, and I'll start writing baritoney things.

  Richard Thompson

  Lying, Home, Writing

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• So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.
  What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it.
  Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Sacrifice, Men

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• Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.

  Wanda Sykes

  Lazy, Energy, Making Money

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• It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

  Ian Mckellen

  Long Walks, Odds, Achievement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Volcanoes, Sleeping In

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• Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spring, Men, Hatred

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• Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Busy, Catching

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• The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

  John Lubbock

  Men, Lazy Man, Doe

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

  Francis Bacon

  Sloth, Use, Too Much

  1625 Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

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• If we're not careful we spiritualize laziness.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Careful

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• There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.

  Kate Cary

  Writing, Mind, Down And

  Source: www.teenink.com

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