28 quotes found
“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty s...”
“My get-up-and-go often leaves without me.”
“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everythin...”
“Where there is no will,there is always a way out.”
“In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris”
“People may say it is better to face problems in life but I say run if you believe you can run faster.”
“I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.”
“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed ...”
“Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.”
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
“I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.”
“Nowadays, our lifestyle is to follow the herd than to use the head.”
“Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was.”
“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”
“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This ...”
“He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.”
“The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.”
“The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.”
“It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.”
