Laziness Quotes

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

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.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.