Lazy Quotes - Page 10

• You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.59, Random House

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• People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

  Marilyn Manson

  Laughter, Stupid, Thinking

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• Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

  Chinua Achebe

  Procrastination, Apology, Men

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Girls at War”, p.42, Anchor

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• In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.

  David Sedaris

  New York, Book, Reading

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mind, Welcome, Excuse

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners By Sigmund Freud”, BookRix

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• "What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

  Emma Goldman

  Giving Up, Men, Order

  "Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901".

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• Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Oil, Cost, Rotting

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• I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It’s a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

  Melina Marchetta

  Watches, Looks, Want

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• Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lazy People, Play, Differences

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Annoying, Lied, Obnoxious

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Clever, Hate, Hard Work

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, People, Answers

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3599, Manonmani Publishers

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• I just bought a Chihuahua. It's the dog for lazy people. You don't have to walk it. Just hold it out the window and squeeze.

  Anthony Ward Clark

  Funny, Dog, Lazy People

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• I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

  Webb Simpson

  Success, Winning, Littles

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• We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.

  Dana Spiotta

  Long, Afternoon, World

  Dana Spiotta (2006). “Eat the Document: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.

  David Bolinsky

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

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• The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

  John Wyndham

  Simple, Imagine, Mass

  John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

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• I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They suggest themselves to me constantly, but I have little patience, I am lazy. Now and then, however, when I'm in the right mood, I stop to listen to one and sit down to record it. I think that by now they know I am not patient, so they make themselves short.

  Rodrigo Rey Rosa

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Being Strong, Exercise, Mind

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.263

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• Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

  Anthony de Mello

  Thinking, Mind, Dull

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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, Important, Laziness

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• If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Given, Term, Ifs

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2017

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• Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Love, Strong, Suits

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• Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

  William James

  Weakness, Proud, Catchy

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• The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.

  Che Guevara

  Intelligent, Organized, Frivolity

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