Lazy Quotes - Page 29

• I had a dog that was so lazy, he had a prerecorded bark.

  Jay Leno

  Dog, Bark

  Jay Leno (2007). “Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

  W. H. Auden

  Past, Reality, Men

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• Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Ambition, Men, Feelings

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.429, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

  John Steinbeck

  Humble, Fighting, One Day

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• I have to watch out for being lazy.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Watches, Being Lazy

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

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• He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.

  Cinda Williams Chima

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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, Culture

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• Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Mean, Self

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• Sometimes it takes a long time for a picture to incubate. And every time I do that, the rewards are so much bigger than what I would have gotten if I had only done the same as I always do. So each time I make an effort and I get out of a lazy routine, it's amazing how big the reward can be. It's listening to those little ideas knocking on the door in your mind.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Long, Effort, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

  Michael Phelps

  Successful, Wife, Honestly

  Source: www.popsugar.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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• It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And most of all, there is truth, ordinary and simple, just sitting there to be plucked, if only we get our lazy rear ends off the pillow of complacency. But first, we need to open our eyes to this banal fact. And for that we need a periodic bit of shakeup in the form of an infusion of wonder - fantastic literature.

  Vera Nazarian

  Eye, Simple, Justice

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Tyrants, Use

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “The Rithmatist”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• People take the lazy way out, and do not regard Putin and the Kremlin as the real enemy. They create a long but erroneous chain in their heads. Putin is the leader of Russia. Putin does X, therefore Russia is doing X, and Russia is our enemy. And so, we introduce sanctions, for example, against Russia.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Real, Long, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I've always been a lazy lip-syncher. But what's always worked for me is to break things down. I'm a visual learner, so I need to see it.

  Sutan Amrull

  Break

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to outline. I'm a lazy outliner. I will put the points down of each chapter or series of chapters, but it always changes. For me it's a place of evolution. I don't really know who the characters are. I don't really know what the story is. I outline and that really just gets me moving. It's like I'm drawing up fake maps, but they turn out to be correct.

  Steve Toltz

  Moving, Character, Fake

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the lazy, easy traditional narrative - which is controlled by the publishing industry - roll all over the readers and dominate the market. I think our readers and cinemagoers have been trained to read and watch very mainstream stuff. It's like being given sleeping pills. It sends people to a non-reflective sleep state.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Sleep, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nothing comes easy. I know that people joke all the time and try to figure out, you know, what it is that I do, but I work really hard. I get up every day at 5 a.m. and start my day. I think as long as you work really hard and figure out what you want to do and stay motivated and have a plan and stay committed - just don't be lazy. That's my best advice. It's the most simple advice, but it really worked for me. I think that for some reason, I see people that think things will come easy and it doesn't really come easy.

  Kim Kardashian

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Men, Lazy Man, Literature

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• I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Long, People, Giving

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.5, Whitaker House

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• If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

  Dan Deacon

  Zero, Dollars, Stills

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 15, 2009.

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• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the every vote counts.

  Adam Carolla

  Vote

  "QA: Adam Carolla talks bad jobs, worse parents and 'horrible' network execs in new book". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Kids, Cartoon

  Interview with Aaron Boulding, www.ign.com. June 15, 2004.

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• Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Morning, Soda, Next

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• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Father, Son

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