Quotes About Laziness

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Obsessional work alone would drive people just as crazy as would complete laziness

He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook. What was this? A catalogue of old books? What was his talent anyway? It was a talent all right but instead of using it, he had traded on it. It was never what he had done, but always what he could do.

But it was true that I preferred to do nothing.

It was the sloppy thinking, the laziness which irritated him most.

I was the laziest person around. Suddenly, one day, I decided to become an actor. Thank God for that whimsical decision: else, by now, I'd have been a 140-kilo, butter-chicken-bingeing hotelier.

Procrastination is in my genetic code.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

Boredom is the attitude that occurs when we fail to embrace the privilege of living a heaven-driven life. Laziness is what happens when we have no compelling cause to energize our day.

Without will-power, you become a victim to the evils of procrastination, laziness and sloth.

Reproaching his slave carpenters, he said, "There is not to be found so idle a set of rascals." Of a slave named Betty who worked as a spinner in the mansion, he complained that "a more lazy, deceitful and impudent hussy is not to be found in the United States.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Pero leer en la cama proporciona algo más que entretenimiento; brinda también una peculiar sensación de intimidad. Leer en la cama es un acto egocéntrico, inmóvil, libre de las ordinarias convenciones sociales, invisible para el mundo y que, como tiene lugar entre las sábanas, en el reino de la lascivia y la pereza pecaminosa, comparte algo de la emoción de las cosas prohibidas.

La indiferencia es una forma de pereza, y la pereza es uno de los síntomas del desamor. Nadie es haragán con lo que ama.

As horas que crescem no lado direito dos relógios devem ser esticadas com ajuda da preguiça, pois são elas as que mais seguramente levam para a morte.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

My theater professor once said to me 'Leslie, you are capable of genuine artistry but you're the laziest actor I know. And yes, you can make people laugh, but you're going to become a parody of yourself and end up in Hollywood if you're not careful.' And he's right, I did all of that.