Laziness Quotes (243 Quotes)

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

He hasn't taken a lazy step.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Everybody got a lot of playing time and we stayed healthy. We didn't take them for granted and that's important because if you get sloppy and lazy, it can hurt you.

Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

He's worked very well, except for his last one, when he went slow by himself. When he goes by himself, he's a little on the lazy side.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

My father told me if you're a leader the first thing you want to do is lead by example, ... That's what I'm going to try to do with these guys because if they see me playing hard every day, flying around, flying to the ball on every play, they're going to do the same. It's just going to be contagious. If I'm being lazy, that's going to be contagious also so I just have to lead by example.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it

David Thomson, the author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, ... a modern rarity an actor who projects lazy, humorous sexuality. ... He has made a variety of flawed, pleasurable films, the merits of which invariably depend on his laconic presence.

He was really, really lazy.

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason we were lazy.

A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure-fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

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.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

We took lazy, dumb, not hardworking penalties. We were never the same after it was 3-2 because they were coming like gangbusters.

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

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

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

He's laying down, being lazy. He gets up and about, eating and drinking. It's a slow recovery process.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities ... interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible....

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport, ... Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in. But they don't know Francis' story, which is why the movie was made in the first place To bring back this amazing tale so that people could be educated about how interesting it was. When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course. Francis was a caddy. He grew up across the street from the course, looked up to Harry Vardon (played by Stephen Dillane in the film), this five-time British Open champion but he was never allowed to play.

Adolfus Nit was lazy;
He dilly-dallied every day;
His life was dreamy, slow and hazy,
And indolent in every way.

Some of the lyrics come from stream-of-consciousness, and I used to spend a long time honing them into a narrative afterwards. Now I'm fine with keeping things more mysterious. I just let the words and images come to me, rather than direct them. You just have to try not to get lazy, and avoid clichs. There are a lot of things you have to throw away.

The tick up in oil prices hurts, but history has shown that interest rates have a much bigger impact on the stock market than oil. And looking at the ISM services number, you're seeing the kind of gradual, lazy improvement in the economy that's not going to really get rates going.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

The parents get stigmatized as not having control over their kids when they can't get them to school in time. Children themselves get stigmatized as avoiding school or lazy. There's a lot of baggage associated with it.

I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

Folks are being intellectually lazy. As publishers, we're as guilty as anyone else in not taking the technology to the next level. We're really in the early stages of the maturity curve and there's more to come here.

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that All they needed was a jump-start.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

He drank a lot and he was lazy, ... He would never do anything.

We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

Whether it's out of laziness or ignorance, consumers' starting point is very much search.

Each is a shared memory for people of different ages, ... It's fashionable -- almost compulsory at the TV festival -- to knock the number of repeats on TV and blame the laziness of broadcasters. But I believe there is a real public service in keeping these memories alive.

Here's Spielman after Oregon State nullifies a sweet kickoff return for a touchdown with a dumb block in the back. That's laziness, pure laziness, ... and lack of discipline.

I definitely made it a point this week to not let up because in the past sometimes when I have won, the next week I have not quite played as well. I was maybe a little lazy, so this week I wanted to keep the routine normal.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.