Best 324 quotes in «laziness quotes» category

The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

The only menace is inertia.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

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

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Accepting reality requires wisdom, impatience, cowardice, or laziness.

... acolo unde nu există aparat de stat și supramuncă, nu există nici model-Muncă. Există doar o variație continuă a acțiunii libere, trecând de la cuvânt la acțiune, de la o acțiune la alta, de la acțiune la cântec, de la cântec la cuvânt, de la cuvânt la întreprindere, într-un ciudat cromatism, cu momente de vârf sau de efort pe care observatorul extern nu poate decât să le ‘traducă’ în termeni de muncă, izbucnind intens și rar. E adevărat că întotdeauna s-a spus despre negri: ‘Nu muncesc, nu știu ce înseamnă munca.’ ... La fel de adevărat este că și indienii nici măcar nu înțelegeau despre ce este vorba, fiind total incapabili de vreun fel de organizare a muncii, chiar și sclavagistă: americanii nu vor fi importat atâția negri decât pentru că nu se puteau folosi de indieni, care preferau mai degrabă să moară. Anumiți etnologi remarcabili au pus o întrebare esențială. Au știut să întoarcă problema: societățile primitive nu sunt niște societăți de penurie sau de subzistență, dat fiindcă nu cunosc munca, ci, dimpotrivă, niște societăți ale acțiunii libere și ale spațiului neted, care nu au nicio nevoie de un factor-muncă , tot așa cum nici nu constituie stocuri. Aceste societăți nu sunt niște societăți ale lenei, chiar dacă diferența lor față de muncă poate să se exprime sub forma unui ‘drept la lene’. Și nu sunt niște societăți fără legi, chiar dacă diferența lor față de lege poate să se exprime sub aparența unei ‘anarhii’. Ele au mai curând legea nomos-ului, care reglează o variație continuă a activității, cu propria ei rigoare și propria ei cruzime (a te debarasa de ceea ce nu poți să transporți – batrâni sau copii...). (Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari)

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!