Quotes About Laziness

You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.

For Pascal, lack of faith was a kind of laziness, a view summed up by T.S. Eliot in his introduction to the Pensées: "The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.  However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.

He had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

the world is full of slackers who only turn out when the weather suits them.

Constitutionally the laziest young devil in America, he had hit on a walk in life which enabled him to go the limit in that direction. He was a poet.

A general "law of least effort" applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. 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.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

We don't use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.

Loskiel reported some Indian tribes of the northeast as "so lazy that they plant nothing themselves, but rely entirely upon the expectation that others will not refuse to share their produce with them. Since the industrious thus enjoy no more of the fruits of their labor than the idle, they plant less every year.

I reckon that being good is about the easiest thing in the world for a lazy man.

Biz here was a constant subliminal hum, and death the accepted punishment for laziness, carelessness, lack of grace, the failure to heed the demands of an intricate protocol

As an immerser I progressed to the ranks I aspired to—those that granted me a certain cachet and income while keeping me from fundamental responsibilities. This is what I excelled at: the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah that we call floaking.

This is what I excelled at: the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah that we call floaking.

I still can't believe that people I know, my peers, are making babies. I'm too lazy to make a salad.

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Although a tirelessly productive author, Johnson considered himself disgracefully lazy—believing that only Presto, a dog belonging to his friend Hester Thrale, might truly be thought lazier.

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father. The Einstein summation convention is the offspring of this happy marriage.

Until then he'd worked hard, but he got in his share of malingering like everybody else.