Laziness Quotes

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

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.

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

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

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

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

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

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

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

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

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 never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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 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.

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

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.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

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

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

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

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