Quotes about laziness

True laziness is the commitment to decrease work and increase efficiency reduce burden and boost creativity expand your knowledge and avoid complications minimize effort and still get it done.

It’s two things you either choose to take risks through storms and win after the hail or you remain idle and die idle. Once laziness is deliberate failure is not an accident!

The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile put a cube of good attitudes into it and you will lick your lips more and more due to its sweet taste.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to work it facinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.

How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.

Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors hid. Fantastic was the discouragement it caused him. Aware of such variety and great quantity, Mr. Lecky saw the danger of forgetting or never even imagining things which, discovered, he would want. Everlastingly midway between two equal errors, to which could he cleave? To have time for everything, one must make haste. To gain access to everything, one must be patient.Moreover, hasty, or pati

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men.

Lazy people live lonely lives.

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.

Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference

It's always easier to take something than work for it...

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.

The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

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

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was.

Nowadays, our lifestyle is to follow the herd than to use the head.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

My route, Sior Francis—and don't be surprised when you hear it—my route when I set out to find God... was... laziness. Yes, laziness. If I wasn't lazy I would have gone the way of respectable, upstanding people. Like everyone else I would have studied a trade—cabinet-maker, weaver, mason—and opened a shop; I would have worked all day long, and where then would I have found time to search for God? I might as well be looking for a needle in a haystack: that's what I would have said to myself. All

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

There is no night in the life of brave, just like there is much rest in the hearts of the lazy ones.

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been

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

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.

Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price

Laziness is not particularly terrible or wonderful. Rather it has a basic living quality that deserves to be experienced just as it is. Perhaps we’ll find an irritating, pulsating quality in laziness. We might feel it as dull and heavy or as vulnerable and raw. Whatever we discover, as we explore it further, we find nothing to hold on to, nothing solid, only groundless, wakeful energy. This process of experiencing laziness directly and nonverbally is transformative. It unlocks a tremendous energ

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

Opportunity never arrives, it only walks by. Chance never comes, it only knocks at the door. Never think the success will jump into your palms; you must work for it!

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.

Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty,

Shrink wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness. ("Prêt-à-penser")

Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture.

Reclined legs don't get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out!

I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.

I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans--and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating.

How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.

There is always time to die, but never time to live.

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.

Some seek only the appearance of justice and virtues. Some seek real justice and virtues. Some others are too lazy to search at all.

Being Good and Lazy human is Deadly combination.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his C

Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

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

But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense.

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.