Being Lazy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.”

I’m afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

As I have gotten older, I’ve discovered the joys of being lazy.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I have to watch out for being lazy.

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

I’m not going to sit at home and eat popcorn.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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

I’m afraid of being lazy and complacent. I’m afraid of taking myself too seriously.

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