Lazy Thinking Quotes

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  What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Acceptance

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

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• People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2017

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• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Creative, Lazy

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Differences, Lazy

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• Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

  Asafa Powell

  Thinking, Years, Lazy

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• Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Lazy, Important

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• The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.

  Joan Didion

  Mean, Thinking, Practice

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 25, 2011

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• I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Hate, Thinking

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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