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Laziness Quotes - Page 8

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Francis Bacon
Sloth, Use, Laziness
1625 Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

Fanny Lewald
Laziness, Impossible, Sin

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

Erik Naggum
Believe, Laziness, Ultimate
Re: Lisp as glue language? (Usenet article), groups.google.com. November 21, 2000.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Elizabeth Smart
Reform, Laziness, Way

You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of laziness or inability. It's just a matter of believing that what I'm doing is worthwhile, that it matters.I just make myself work. I just make myself go to work, whether I feel like it or not.

David Small
Believe, Laziness, Blocked
Source: www.teachingbooks.net

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

Clovis Chappell
Hurt, Men, Laziness
CLOVIS G. CHAPPELL (1970). “SORMONS ON BIBLICAL CHARACTERS”

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Laziness, May, Disease

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Sloth, Laziness, Paradise
Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Aleksandar Hemon
Laziness, Domain, Familiar
"The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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 everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

Albert Camus
Ideas, Laziness, Made

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Alain de Botton
Understanding, Laziness, Bob
"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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