#laziness

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. ↗

— Robert Half

#failure #goes #ingredient #into #kept

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#grave #laziness #leisure #life #sleeping

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#incompetence #last #laziness #luck #refuge

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards! ↗

— Susan Powter

#anymore #does #easy #fly #hard

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ↗

— Anne Frank

#appear #attractive #gives #laziness #may

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

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. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ↗

— Sam Keen

#finds #laziness #respectability #summer

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. ↗

— Bern Williams

#i #indolence #laziness #like #makes

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ↗

— Jules Renard

#failure #laziness #only #others #our