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Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
I can be lazy, don't get me wrong. But it's not laziness that's holding me back, it's the system where I don't fit in.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.
I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.
The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.
See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.
Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people's reading habits.
Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.
Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.
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.
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
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!
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.