#laziness

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#characteristic #chief #displacing #incompetence #journalism

I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #delusional #funny #hard-work #humor

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. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #better #better place #eat #encourages

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. ↗

— Mary Garden

#discipline #due #factors #lack #laziness

I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison. ↗

— Daniil Kharms

#prison #conscience

With me, it was my liver that was out of order. […] I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind." What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell. From my earliest infancy I have been a martyr to it. As a boy, the disease hardly ever left me for a day. They did not know, then, that it was my liver. Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#illness #laziness #liver #men

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#boredom #hold #into #knots #laziness

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#audition #auditions #awhile #come #embarrassing

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#laziness #low #manner #person #repose

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ↗

— David Dunham

#work #intelligence