Lazy Quotes - Page 17

• Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mind, Welcome, Excuse

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners By Sigmund Freud”, BookRix

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• Content in a way he’d rarely been before Mercy, he simply stroked her until she purred. It delighted him as it always did. “I made you purr.” A lazy yawn. “I’m faking it.

  Nalini Singh

  Way, Mercy, Made

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.152, Penguin

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• I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.

  Linda Evangelista

  Tired, Wish, Bed

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• If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.

  James Dobson

  Children, Thinking, Levels

  Dr. James Dobson (2015). “Building Confidence in Your Child”, p.136, Revell

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• These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

  Tahir Shah

  Hard Work, Challenges, Reason

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.145, Random House

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• I never have goals or dreams. My sister says it's pathetic and lazy, but I had a goal, to tell jokes to pay bills and not have to live in a trailer. So, I think I'm living my fantasy. I don't have another.

  Kathleen Madigan

  Dream, Thinking, Goal

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• I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, Driven, Persons

  "Q&A: Fey, Carell hit the town in `Date Night'". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. March 29, 2010.

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• It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

  Ethan Hawke

  People, Excellence, Levels

  "Ethan Hawke's Fifth Elements". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2012.

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• One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Sloth, Doe

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• David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Powerful, Real, Self

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, Generations, Half

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

  Hilarie Burton

  Growing Up, Adventure, Virginia

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• I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Teacher, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.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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• The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

  James Ellis

  Men, Lazy Man, Aim

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• The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stupidity, Talent, Study

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• I've always kept my overhead low so I could do whatever I want. I think of myself as lazy with spurts of getting a lot done. I find myself rooting against things sometimes because I get excited at the thought of a clean slate.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Done, Want

  "Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, and Roseanne Barr Talk Judaism, F-bombs, and Radical Feminism". Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Dumb, Secret

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• Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

  Edward Abbey

  Years, Sitting, Tolls

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, University of Arizona Press

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• I worked in Harrods as a sales girl and I was so lazy, I just sat on my arse all day. Now I have huge respect for shop girls. It was boring, so I tried to shoplift things, but we'd always get our bags checked.

  Susannah Constantine

  Girl, Arses, Bags

  "Interrogation: Trinny & Susannah". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. September 16, 2007.

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• The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

  Chris Cleave

  Bad Day, Giving, Keyboards

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• No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Earth, Personal Power

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• All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.

  Danger Mouse

  School, Mean, Night

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• It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

  David Baldacci

  Believe, Passion, Thinking

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Christmas Train”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

  Michael Bassey

  Needs, Poverty, False Friends

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