Quotes About Laziness

Vadiação é bom costume.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

La holgazanería podrá parecer atractiva, pero la satisfacción sólo la da el trabajo.

Great idea on the arrangement of my work. It will make a difference to me to disentangle certain passages, bring certain phrases in relief, help me to find my own bearings. The literalness is not to be attributed to the high and noble reasons I gave you (all that stuff on Rimbaud, metaphysical-artistic imperatives), just sheer laziness, between you and me.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

I used to think I had integrity but I came to realize it was just sloth.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler

I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Gavin was lying on his bed watching ESPN. He should have something more constructive to do than watch a replay of a soccer game between two European teams. Why wasn't he up and dressed, doing something rather than lazing in bed

The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word "dude.

A job, in their view, was a job, and, as with most jobs, you just had to find that perfect balance between doing as little as possible so you didn't get tired, and just enough so that you didn't get fired.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever.

Still others—even less charitably—think ADHD is a fancy term for laziness and that people who "have it" need some good old-fashioned discipline! In fact, "laziness" is a word about as far from accurate as it could be. The mind of someone with ADHD is in fact constantly at work. Our productivity may not always show it, but this is not because of a lack of intent or energy!

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.

La "fiaca" en el dialecto genovés expresa esto: "Desgarro físico originado por la falta de alimentación momentánea". Deseo de no hacer nada. Languidez. Sopor. Ganas de acostarse en una hamaca paraguaya durante un siglo. Deseos de dormir como los durmientes de Efeso durante ciento y pico de años

I've always been trying to do as little as possible, and I'm getting better at it all the time.

Essentially, I am a lazy bum. I prefer lolling around, watching movies and yapping away to glory with my family and friends, when I have the time.

Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.

Emma Thompson and her husband, Greg Wise, have become citizens of Venice. I'm not sure whether it's just laziness, or fear of one of life's most stressful events - moving house - but you won't budge me from South London.

I wish someone would give me some money for doing nothing.

Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It's not that I like to sleep, it's that I don't like to get up! There is a difference.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.