Laziness Quotes - Page 16

• Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.

  David Bayles

  Art, Irritation, Giving

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.14, Image Continuum Press

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• Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Character, Fighting, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

  Octavia Butler

  Ambition, Oil And Water, Years

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• Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Play

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• I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

  Tana French

  Hate, Accessories, Nostalgia

  "The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 2)". Book by Tana French, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Lazy, Asks

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• But poverty, with most who whimper forth
  Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
  The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

  William Cowper

  Writing, Self, Long

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.233

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• Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Sloth, Movement, World

  Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.19, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Mistake, Two

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• it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

  Jane Austen

  Youth, Sofas, Tricks

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Lazy Man, Progress

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.61, Penguin

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Persons

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• Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Ignorance, Character, Vanity

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Volume II, Chapter XI, 1688.

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• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

  Freya Stark

  Daughter, War, Sleep

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.

  Emily Carr

  Beach, Waiting, Way

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.247, D & M Publishers

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• Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Father, Boys

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• There's a reason I'm a stand-up comedian. I think there may be some laziness inherent in that job. It's the four-hour work week, on some level. I mean, I work at it, but it's not that kind of... it's just not the hours at all. So I was extremely grateful for the job. It was super, super fun, and I'm surprised that I made it.

  Maria Bamford

  Fun, Grateful, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as your experiences are pressured by empirical investigation of complex phenomena. I suspect that even when you control for variables of individual laziness, you'll see that what you see before you masses of black poor people unwilling to work hard to get better will not be as simply concluded as you might at first believe. Continue your good work.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Believe, Hard Work, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My ambition is handicapped by laziness

  Charles Bukowski

  Ambition, Handicapped, My Ambition

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

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Sloth, Mind, Irritated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Jesus, Doubt

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

  Lore Segal

  Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I tend to pair up Benjamin Harrison and Dwight Eisenhower because they're the two presidents I can think of who most preferred laziness to labor.... There's not much else you can say about Harrison except that he was president of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, Two, President

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.50, New Word City

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• That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just laziness. Get to work." But as for discipline, I don't even use that word. I think more about passion or love. What I've really learned is the way the mind moves, and how the mind works. Rather than discipline, I know how to seduce my mind.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Teacher, Moving, Passion

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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