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• It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

  Leslie Charteris

  Writing, Literature, Laziness

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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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• I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

  Shirley Conran

  Lying, Secret, Facts

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

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• I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Thinking, People

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• The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

  Tom Robbins

  Practice, Enemy, Experts

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• I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

  Ryan Adams

  Men, Thinking, People

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

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• I'm just really a lazy homebody.

  Amy Brenneman

  Homebodies

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• Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Pay The Price, Unanswered Questions

  Song: Did Ya

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• There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

  Douglas Preston

  Hate, Research, Shows

  "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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• A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Discipline, Bears

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• How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

  George Papandreou

  Country, Hands, Support

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• At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

  Matthew Rhys

  Home, Long, Welsh

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