Laziness Quotes
444 quotes by 357 authors
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
— Henry Adams
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.…
— Jerome Bruner
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If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home.…
— Mark Burnett
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself…
— Agatha Christie
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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
— Kingsley Amis
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
— Tim Ferriss
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men…
— William Faulkner
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The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about…
— Geshe Gyeltsen
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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
— Benjamin Franklin
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One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.
— Horace
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Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.
— RuPaul
Who Wrote These Laziness Quotes
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