Lazy Quotes - Page 16

• The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

  Michael Deaver

  Government, Media, Political

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• By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

  Henry Adams

  Strong, Men, Laziness

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• See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Believe, Fighting

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• As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

  Leon Trotsky

  Animal, Reality, Men

  "Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky".

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• Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!

  Phil Heath

  Pain, Giving, Negative

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• It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

  Vin Scully

  Laziness, Easier, Runners

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• God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

  Dennis Potter

  Thinking, Names, Laziness

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• That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

  John Kasich

  Poor, Ifs

  "Ohio Governor Defies G.O.P. With Defense of Social Safety Net" by Trip Gabriel, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2013.

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• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  Mark Dunn

  Dog, Uncles, Toby

  Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.8, MP Publishing

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• If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write

  Tommy Shaw

  Writing, Ideas, Machines

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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, Use

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

  Tommy Shaw

  Popular Song, Down And, Figures

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• An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

  Sophie Kerr

  Saint, Sinner, Industrious

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• You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

  Maxwell Rosenlicht

  Math, Laziness, Reason

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• Mathematics is for lazy people.

  Peter Hilton

  Math, Lazy People, People

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• Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

  Larry Page

  World

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• Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

  Hollis Stacy

  Kids, Littles, Tough

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• Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.

  Steve Almond

  Powerful, Political, Age

  "The Joke’s on You" by Steve Almond, The Baffler, No. 20, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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• There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard- working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard- working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.

  Erich von Manstein

  Stupid, Hard Work, Intelligent

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• Rocking on a lazy billow
  With roaming eyes,
  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
  Thou art now wise.
  Wake the power within thee slumbering,
  Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
  Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
  Sweet labour's prize.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Wise, Sweet, Art

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• The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Lonely, Art, Begging You

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• Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.

  Basilea Schlink

  Running, Jesus, Fall

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• I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

  Blythe Danner

  Hard Work, First Love, People

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• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Men

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• I'm not lazy, I drive everywhere myself, the dog could've learned something from me.

  Zach Braff

  Dog

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