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Quotes About Unmotivated

Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.
~ Edwin H. Friedman
That was the simple truth: he just couldn't be bothered.
~ Jean Ure
I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.
~ Hayley Mills
Il linguaggio umano è, in fondo, il grande scandalo della natura: il linguaggio umano costringe a riconoscere una discontinuità immotivata e improvvisa tra gli esseri viventi.
~ Andrea Moro
The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.
~ George Carlin
I can't fix stupid and I can't fix lazy.
~ Ann Bruce
I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
~ Tom Petty
My grades suffered. I didn't care.
~ Ernest Cline
Deep down inside, I am lazy.
~ James May
I had become complacent in WWE when I got released in 2014. I had become unmotivated. I wasn't driven. I was out of shape and just not focussed.
~ Jinder Mahal
Being lazy, full of himself; these elements also helped to render him docile.
~ Tanith Lee
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
~ Peter F. Drucker
The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.
~ James Ellis
He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained, I've come to understand that grown-ups, mad or sane, ought really to be accorded the same respect. In this sense, nobody is actually crazy, just not understood.
~ Claire Messud
The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained
~ Claire Messud
I'm not feeling very worky today.
~ Anonymous
I'm just lazy.
~ Woody Allen
I'm just generally lazy.
~ Dave McCary
I'm a lazy sod.
~ Teller
I'm kind of lazy.
~ Quinton Jackson
W)e must - precisely in order to see the world and to grasp it as a paradox - rupture our familiarity with it, and this rupture can teach us nothing except the unmotivated springing forth of the world.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Her thoughts, however, resembled those of a fish – something seen floating in a tank, brooding, self-absorbed, frigid, moving solemnly forward to its object or veering slowly sideways without fully conscious motivation. She had been born, apparently, without any natural predilection towards thought or action, and the circumstances of her early life had seemed to render both unnecessary.
~ Patrick Hamilton