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Quotes About Laziness

Me, I'm a lazy bum, so I don't shave.
~ Samuel Ervin Beam
I had a bit of a lazy streak to me, I had high opinions of myself without any real grounding reason to, I made a bit of television that did ok, and all of a sudden life was pretty relaxed for me.
~ Spencer Matthews
As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.
~ Arthur Phillips
I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
~ Vince McMahon
He was too lazy even for a mere demagogue, for a workman orator, for a leader of labour. It was too much trouble. He required a more perfect form of ease; or it might have been that he was the victim of a philosophical unbelief in the effectivness of every human effort.
~ Joseph Conrad
La postergación es la estrategia que apadrina el miedo y la pereza de los incapaces.
~ Walter Riso
You may be fast but you still accel at wasting time!
~ Weiss Schnee
Social inequality only exists because laziness doesn't make an effort.
~ Wesley D'Amico
In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The defining feature of System 2, in this story, is that its operations are effortful, and one of its main characteristics is laziness, a reluctance to invest more effort than is strictly necessary. As a consequence, the thoughts and actions that System 2 believes it has chosen are often
~ Daniel Kahneman
The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.
~ Daniel Kahneman
economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.
~ Daniel Kahneman
You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
~ James Dashner
he devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible. Tristan did, in fact, spend much of his time sleeping in a chair.
~ James Herriot
something about the place inspired a magnificent laziness I hadn't known since childhood.
~ Donna Tartt
She gave up combing her hair, which the salt air had reduced to a kind of scrim of brown hessian, and, lying down, proceeded to keep her fingernails short in the way Kate admired least. Then she overslept.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Ours is not an age that wants heroes. Ours is an age of envy, in which laziness and self-involvement are the rule. Anyone who tries to shine, who dares to stand above the crowd, is dragged down by his lackluster and self-appointed "peers".
~ Douglas Gillette
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 trouble.
~ Agatha Christie
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 trouble.
~ Agatha Christie
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
~ Agatha Christie
Seni yang benar-benar seni, tentu saja berbeda, dan anak-anak muda itu memakai alasan seni untuk membenarkan sikap mereka yang malas-malasan
~ Agatha Christie
Whenever I get feel an urge to exercise, I lie down and take a nap.
~ Al Pacino
Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down and nap until the urge passes.
~ Al Pacino
Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down and take a nap instead.
~ Al Pacino