Lazy Quotes - Page 18

• But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

  Norman Lear

  Dad, Kids, Race

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

  George Polya

  Hard Work, Science, Principles

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• There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Encouragement, Prayer, Children

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• Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won't be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.

  Shelton Smith

  Atheist, Heart, People

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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, Laziness

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• When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

  Jesse Jackson

  Justice, Diversity, Unemployed

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• Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.

  Craig Parker

  Drinking, Coffee, Thinking

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

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• How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?

  Judy Tenuta

  Suicide, Suicidal, Dating

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• You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Educational, Competition

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• With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

  Anna Quindlen

  Mean, Cubicles, Generations

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• All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.

  Danger Mouse

  School, Mean, Night

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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, Looks

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• True depth of understanding is wide and steady,
  Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering,
  Words of wisdom are precise and clear

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Understanding, Depth

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• If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Wisdom, Thinking, Sloth

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• Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is directed to each of us, that none of us grow lazy in the faith. It is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive, ever anew, the marvels that God works for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Boys, Cfs, Catholic

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• There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.

  Richard Koch

  Work, Thinking, May

  Richard Koch (2011). “Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Work, Men, Lazy Man

  Jimmy Cannon (1956). “Who struck John?”

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• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Uplifting, Nature, Stars

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.78

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• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com

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• Free... Yes...FREE time
  Is what retirement brings
  Leisure, lounging and loafing
  And other lazy things

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Leisure, Lounging

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• Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

  Jason Biggs

  Umpires, Pounds, Los Angeles

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• A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

  Boris Gelfand

  Lying, Home, Player

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• We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

  Jim Rohn

  Self Improvement, Information, Knows

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• Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Men, Hands

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• I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.

  Max Lucado

  Hope, Opportunity, People

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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