Zitat des Tages über Faulheit / Laziness:
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
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 freedom.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
WWE has no issues with my stand-up. I do not miss work for any reason and will continue to work around my schedule because I'm a professional and do not allow complacency or laziness.
In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people's reading habits.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
