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Quotes About Laziness

He had found that all snails have the capacity to do over one hundred miles per hour and find their way to a given location with pinpoint accuracy, but didn't because they were horribly lazy and couldn't be bothered.
~ Jasper Fforde
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness.
~ Jean Cocteau
They are lazy, worthless men who contribute nothing, unless they're shamed into it, and they have little shame.
~ Jean M. Auel
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I was there, standing in front of a window whose panes had a definite refraction index. But what feeble barriers! I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then, anything, anything could happen.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.
~ Sasha Grey
I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.
~ Steve Carell
Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.
~ Dagmar Godowsky
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
~ Roger Ailes
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
~ Bill Sienkiewicz
I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
~ Fran Lebowitz
There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.
~ J. Reuben Clark
I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.
~ Jimmy Cannon
Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.
~ Hal Elrod
I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.
~ Josh Smith
I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
~ Agatha Christie
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
~ Catherine Tate
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
~ Erik Naggum
I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
~ Iris Apfel
I have a good family and I like to be home with them. The older I get, the lazier I get, and the more content I am to sit at home and eat string cheese.
~ Michael Ian Black