I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.
(n.) The state or quality of being lazy.
Lazy people live lonely lives.
Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally...
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those tha...
It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has its genuine therapeutic value; we would be better for it, would be able to work more...
Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire count...
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
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 everything y...
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everyb...
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
People may say it is better to face problems in life but I say run if you believe you can run faster.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic fre...
New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated...