#laziness

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. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#conscious #conscious decision #decision #discussing #email

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#heavenly #i #irritates #laziness #me

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ↗

— Anne Frank

#appear #attractive #gives #laziness #may

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

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#laziness #sloth #work #humor

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. ↗

— Grenville Kleiser

#body #days #effort #energetic #laziness

The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile; put a cube of good attitudes into it and you will lick your lips more and more due to its sweet taste. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#bile #bitter #cube #laziness #life

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. ↗

— Iain Pears

#laziness #occupation #occupied-france #politics #war

I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#laziness #marriage #dreams