Being Lazy Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

  Andy Roddick

  Home, Thinking, Lakes

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

  Campbell Scott

  Work, Lazy, Laziness

  "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part II" by Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2001.

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• Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Lying, Mean, Giving

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• I have to watch out for being lazy.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Lazy, Watches

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.

  Sophia Bush

  Dog, Sunday, Lazy

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• Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Work, Mean, Giving

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.169, Hamilton Books

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• While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

  Anna Quindlen

  Growing Up, Real, Reading

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic--their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)--and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.

  Marisha Pessl

  Dad, Mistake, Nice

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• Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery.

  Kate Morton

  Lazy, Magic, Rabbits

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.529, Simon and Schuster

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• Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

  George Polya

  Hard Work, Science, Lazy

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• I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

  Stephen Fry

  Lazy, Way, Wasting Time

  "Big Think Interview With Stephen Fry". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hardworking people when it comes to striving at our vocational things. I do think it's a conversation, but a lot of times, you make sacrifices for the sake of jokes, or for the sake of a scene.

  Lucas Neff

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a difference between willing and forcing. Willing something simply means you are not being lazy. Forcing something means you are trying to do something inappropriate or in an inappropriate way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Differences

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• If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.

  John Digweed

  Music, Blow, Play

  "The problem with mainstream EDM festivals" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2015.

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• I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are taking advantage of all their opportunities and not tying themselves down to traditional gender roles or traditional life roles.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Believe, Kids, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes being lazy can get you in trouble. You ever not take a shower all weekend, just lounge around, then you're running late for work on Monday? There's always one person at work: "Something smells like smoke in here!" "Uh, I went to a barbeque on Friday night. Only had 48 hours to take a shower. Busy."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Friday, Running

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• You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, House

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• Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

  John Backus

  Writing, Lazy, Computer

  IBM employee magazine "Think", 1979.

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• Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sacrifice, Giving, Lazy

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• Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Pay The Price, Lazy

  Song: Did Ya

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• I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

  Rhonda Byrne

  Jobs, Government, People

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• There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.

  Richard Koch

  Work, Thinking, Lazy

  Richard Koch (2011). “Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.

  Emily Barton

  Fashion, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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