Quotes About Laziness

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

What teachers and the administration in that era never appeared to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.

If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

Actually, she was still in her pyjamas and all she'd achieved that morning was getting out of bed. She hadn't even managed to feed herself breakfast yet.

Some days she slouched for endless hours on the sofa, yawning hugely, like someone suffering from terrible jet lag.

So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am.

cats stretched out in puddles of sunshine;

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

Idling has always been my strong point.

With me, it was my liver that was out of order. […] I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being a general disinclination to work of any kind. What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell. From my earliest infancy I have been a martyr to it. As a boy, the disease hardly ever left me for a day. They did not know, then, that it was my liver. Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.

Idling has always been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter-it is a gift.

In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind." What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell.  From my

In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind.

Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.