Lazy Quotes - Page 37

• The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Sleep, Men, Play

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• I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

  Richard Billingham

  Littles, Becoming, Sketchbooks

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• The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

  Mark Twain

  Community, Sleepy, Portuguese

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4194, Delphi Classics

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• In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

  John Derbyshire

  Selfish, Matter, Despotism

  John Derbyshire (2009). “We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism”, p.175, Crown Forum

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• Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

  Evan Sayet

  Hard Work, Evil, Justice

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• I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Seems, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a little bit more of a relaxed, lazy mother.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Mother, Littles, Relaxed

  Source: collider.com

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• So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.
  What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it.
  Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Sacrifice, Men

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• People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  People, Understanding, Curiosity

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.

  Albert Brooks

  Dog, Acting, Four

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• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, Sleep, Two

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin”, p.49

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• Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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

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• While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

  Anna Quindlen

  Growing Up, Real, Reading

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Limits, Possibility

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

  David Eagleman

  Heart, Dull, Planets

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.

  John Digweed

  Music, Blow, Play

  "The problem with mainstream EDM festivals" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2015.

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• My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

  Sasha Grey

  Dad, World, Feels

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• The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

  Cyrus Broacha

  Firsts, Comedy, Should

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• I'm always aware that there's a trick to television to prevent an actor from becoming too lazy. Once you become too familiar with a character, it can stifle the adrenalin from flowing through in the performance.

  Julianna Margulies

  Character, Actors, Television

  Source: deadline.com

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• Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Yoga, Lazy People, Practice

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• Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.

  Charles Darwin

  Butterfly, Gay, Glowing

  Charles Darwin (1864). “Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World: Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy”, p.299

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• Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dark, Light, People

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• My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

  Tim Cahill

  Workout, Drinking, Cutting

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• One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

  Charles S. Price

  Thinking, Humanity, Trouble

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• I especially like Ron. Sometimes you feel so sorry for him because he's always getting stuff from his brothers. And he's got a fat, lazy rat.

  Rupert Grint

  Brother, Sorry, Rats

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