To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Why make people feel as if working on themselves or working on their relationship is a negative thing? The biggest mistake is… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is insanity for any man to wish for a different life to the one he has. Such wishes are based upon… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Emma Thompson and her husband, Greg Wise, have become citizens of Venice. I'm not sure whether it's just laziness, or fear of… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
