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• You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Art, Done, Benefits

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2017

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• Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Funny, Ambition

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• Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

  Susan Rice

  People, Sitting, Behinds

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Noses, Ready

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• As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

  Jerry Bridges

  Body

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.88, NavPress

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• Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

  Joseph Pilates

  Breathing, Dying, Pilates

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• Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

  Walter Chrysler

  Funny, Jobs, Hard Work

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• I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

  Tom Petty

  Laziness, Petty

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• The lazy are always wanting to do something.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Sloth, Laziness

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Effort, Hunters, Literature

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• Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

  Ann Rule

  Lazy People, Laziness, Chance

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• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

  Kin Hubbard

  Patience, Work, Laziness

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• Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, People, Dirt

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• You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Giving, Wish, Laziness

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  Barbra Streisand

  Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

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• Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Names, People, Laziness

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• Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

  Douglas Coupland

  Way, Chaos, Blame

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

  John Goodman

  Boys, Recliners

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

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Work, Laziness

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself”, p.244

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• There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sick, Persons, Uninspired

  "See You at the Top". Book by Zig Ziglar, 2000.

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• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Hilarious, Work

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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

  Campbell Scott

  Work, Laziness, Sometimes

  "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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