Lazy Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.bu.edu

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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 lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
  [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

  Horace

  Change, Horse, Wish

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• I worked in Harrods as a sales girl and I was so lazy, I just sat on my arse all day. Now I have huge respect for shop girls. It was boring, so I tried to shoplift things, but we'd always get our bags checked.

  Susannah Constantine

  Girl, Arses, Bags

  "Interrogation: Trinny & Susannah". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. September 16, 2007.

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• Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

  Edward Abbey

  Years, Sitting, Tolls

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, University of Arizona Press

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• The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

  Chris Cleave

  Bad Day, Giving, Keyboards

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• The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stupidity, Talent, Study

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• The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

  James Ellis

  Men, Lazy Man, Aim

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• Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Self, Important

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Teacher, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Dumb, Secret

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• No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Earth, Personal Power

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• There is a difference between willing and forcing. Willing something simply means you are not being lazy. Forcing something means you are trying to do something inappropriate or in an inappropriate way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Differences

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• David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Powerful, Real, Self

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, Generations, Half

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, Driven, Persons

  "Q&A: Fey, Carell hit the town in `Date Night'". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. March 29, 2010.

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• I like to act. I guess letting what you love be what you do is key. I've worked very hard for that to be the case, probably because I'm very lazy and I only want to do things that are fun and I run away from anything that feels like work... Acting for me is like lunch at school - you're just in a playground where you get to pretend and play.

  Dichen Lachman

  Running, Fun, School

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

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