Best 324 quotes in «laziness quotes» category

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed.

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

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

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever.

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.

Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.

Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.

Negativity is basically laziness.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.