Best Being Lazy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Lazy, begets poverty, every time!”

Poverty Lazy Laziness Work Ethic Work Hard Being Lazy

Book:When It Sucks It Blows

Source: When It Sucks It Blows

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”

Two Enough Motivation Sleep Liberty Mindset Graves Two Things Lazy Leisure Laziness Poor Richard Being Lazy

Book:The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”

Liberty Society Taxes Economics Conservative Libertarian Lazy Laziness Paying Taxes Being Lazy

Author:Milton Friedman

“Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.”

Giving Values Culture Sacrifice Productivity Lazy Being Lazy Personal Sacrifice

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.”

Writing Easier Computer Program Programming Lazy Missiles Computing Trajectory Ibm Being Lazy

Author:John Backus

“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.”

Way Trying Mean Differences Willing Buddhism Lazy Inappropriate Being Lazy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.”

Sometimes Talent Okay Awful Lazy Laziness Being Lazy

Author:M.C. Beaton

“When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hardworking people when it comes to striving at our vocational things. I do think it's a conversation, but a lot of times, you make sacrifices for the sake of jokes, or for the sake of a scene.”

People Thinking Want Looks Parent Sacrifice Scene Conversation Jokes Strive Sake Lazy Hardworking Being Lazy

Author:Lucas Neff

“I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.”

Way Courses Divine Advantage Lazy Wasting Time No Point Indolence Being Lazy

Author:Stephen Fry

“You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."”

Looks Reason Humor Funny House Energy Realizing Watches Too Much Like You Right Now Picks Letters Connections Neighbor Lazy No Reason Finding Yourself Host Mail Being Lazy Love Connection

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Sometimes being lazy can get you in trouble. You ever not take a shower all weekend, just lounge around, then you're running late for work on Monday? There's always one person at work: "Something smells like smoke in here!" "Uh, I went to a barbeque on Friday night. Only had 48 hours to take a shower. Busy."”

Persons Sometimes Humor Running Funny Night Hours Trouble Late Busy Smell Smoke Lazy Weekend Showers Monday Friday Friday Night Being Lazy 48 Hours Running Late

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.”

Way Giving Mean Doe Important Facts Lying Process Chance Creative Productivity Lazy Crucial Meaningless Creative Process Doing Nothing Kick Ass Bustle Being Lazy

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.”

People Ifs Knows World Mind Play Stuff Music Position Blow Reactions Lazy Laziness Just Being Music Industry Djs Mind Blowing Electronic Music Being Lazy

Author:John Digweed

“I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are taking advantage of all their opportunities and not tying themselves down to traditional gender roles or traditional life roles.”

People Thinking Believe May Bigs Kids Opportunity Roles Advantage Don't Believe Gender Traditional Lazy Gender Roles Taking Advantage Being Lazy

Author:Desiree Akhavan

“It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.”

Ifs Littles Bits Goal Challenges Little Bit Harder Track Lazy Mature Convincing Being Lazy

Author:Lotic

“There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.”

Song Love You Cat Lazy Weed Being In Love Being Lazy

Author:Bethany Cosentino

“Maybe it's just me being lazy but I just don't like describing my music or style or anything, I just like letting people interpret it.”

People Style Lazy Describing Being Lazy

Author:BØRNS

“If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.”

Ifs Life Feels Home Body Action Success Sorry Lazy Taking Action Being Lazy

Author:Kim Kardashian

“I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.”

Thinking Giving Feels Kind Book Different Fashion Balance Complicated Strikes Lazy Permission Giving Yourself Being Lazy

Author:Emily Barton

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

Inspirational Enough Funny Poor Ambition Excuse Lazy Laziness My Ambition Funny Work Being Lazy Funny Procrastination Early Bird

Author:Milan Kundera

“I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.”

Two Two Things Lazy Cowardly Being Lazy Cowardly Acts

Author:David Mamet

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

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Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

Running Motivation Business Habit Tired Lazy Laziness Sloth Running Marathon Great Running Cross Country Running Marathon Running Running Training Training For A Marathon Getting Tired Being Lazy Lazy Man Slothfulness

Author:Jules Renard

“I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.”

Thinking Home Enjoy Tennis Lazy Lakes Just Being Florida Sofas Being Lazy

Author:Andy Roddick

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

Sometimes Hard Work Worst Hard Work Lazy Laziness Being Lazy

Author:Campbell Scott

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”

Lying Stars Study Summer Clouds Grass Branches Lazy Slips Permission Annuals Summertime Being Lazy

Author:Regina Brett

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

Giving Looks May Mean Work Satisfaction Lazy Laziness Earning Doing Good Inviting Being Lazy

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”

Men Way Life Trying Made Motivational Funny Progress Easier Novelists Lazy Laziness Efficiency Being Lazy Early Bird Lazy Man

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.”

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic--their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)--and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.”

“Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery.”

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Book:The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

“If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.”

Ifs Dog Active Lazy Sunday Saturday My Dog Couches Being Lazy

Author:Sophia Bush

“There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”

Inspirational Enough Sleep Business Positive Thinking Graves Lazy Leisure Laziness Poor Richard Being Lazy

Book:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition

Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition

“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.”

Inspirational Work Poverty Awe Lazy Laziness Idleness Poor Richard Awe Inspiring Being Lazy

Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself

“Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself”

Science Principles Hard Work Mathematics Lazy Laziness Being Lazy

Author:George Polya

“I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.”

Lazy Laziness Complacent Being Lazy

Author:Barbara Hershey

“Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing being lazy, you will be lazy. If you keep practicing complaining, you will constantly complain. If you practice compassion, generosity, patience, working hard and having a bigger vision, you will become better at it with time because you will create the causes to become better. You are practicing to become better.”

People Ifs Hard Inspiration Causes Compassion Vision Practice Successful Bigger Complaining Buddhist Generosity Lazy Successful People Gymnast Complainers Lazy People Being Lazy

Author:Tsem Tulku

“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.”

Men Years Tomorrow Appeals Lazy Laziness Procrastination Will Power Procrastinating Lazy People Being Lazy Funny Procrastination Lazy Man

Author:Jimmy Lyons

“Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.”

Drinking Drunk Lazy Laziness Sloth Indolence Being Lazy Loving Deeply

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.”

Reality America Successful Lazy Being Lazy

Author:Bruno Tonioli

“I'm not going to sit at home and eat popcorn.”

Home Popcorn Being Lazy

Author:Allen West

“You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.”

Film Used Theatre Lazy Laziness Being Lazy

Author:Michael Gambon

“Much of my work has come from being lazy.”

Lazy Laziness Being Lazy

Author:John Backus

“There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.”

Ifs Thinking May Facts Work Deals Achieve Plenty Our Time Lazy Relaxed Time To Think Being Lazy

Book:Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More

Source: Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More

“I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money”

People Persons Government Jobs Difficult Advantage Lazy Disabled Taking Advantage Being Lazy

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“I have to watch out for being lazy.”

Watches Lazy Being Lazy

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.”

World Mind Body Society Prosperity Lazy Laziness Being Lazy

Author:Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

“As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.”

Joy Lazy Being Lazy

Author:Julie Bowen

“Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?”

Thinking Pay Lazy Pay The Price Unanswered Questions Being Lazy

Author:Ray Davies

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