Slacker Quotes

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

— Dave Grohl

'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

— Richard Linklater

“How can you attain satisfaction if you have more excuses than action?”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

— Stephen Hawking

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

— Anonymous

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

— Joan Rivers

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

— Kent Beck

“Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.”

— Toba Beta

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated,…

— Savannah Guthrie

“Aki: You're quite a proactive slacker. Blake: I try my best to avoid trying.”

— Ian Isaro

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

— Regina Spektor

“If you run your ship with the conviction that everyone’s a slacker, your employees will put all their ingenuity into proving you…

— Jason Fried

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

— Bode Miller

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

— Michael Gira

I don't think I'm a slacker, but I don't have aspirations to, like, conquer Hollywood. Or the world. Or anything.

— Jesse Plemons

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

— Richard Linklater

Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern…

— Adolf Hitler

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually…

— Dean Koontz

If you really want to succeed, you'll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn't for…

— Donald Trump

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn…

— Anonymous

I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character…

— Richard Linklater

Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that…

— Stephen Malkmus

“Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880. ...…

— Sarah Vowell

“Having a job is tricky. You don't want to be so productive that you make your coworkers appear like slackers, and you…

— Jarod Kintz

The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the…

— Jonathan Carroll

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— Aceyalone

In interviews, I never wanted to play into the myth of, 'Yeah, I was sitting there doing nothing, and then made 'Slacker.''…

— Richard Linklater

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social…

— Richard Linklater

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his…

— Alexander Berkman

I think the parts I was offered when I was younger, where I was asked to play that kind of slacker person,…

— Janeane Garofalo

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none…

— Robert Pozen

“Peter Grant,’ I said. ‘Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.

— Michael O'Leary

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

— Rachel Zoe

When I did 'Slacker,' I didn't own cowboy hats or boots. I was like, 'That's not me.'

— Richard Linklater

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

— Mac DeMarco

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

— C. S. Lewis

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

— James Hilton

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of…

— Eric Liu