#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

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#critics #disease #hard #labeled #laziness

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

— Kingsley Amis

#characteristic #chief #displacing #incompetence #journalism

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. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

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

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

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#i #just #laziness #never #self-respect

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

Laziness is a luxurious mindset that I can not afford to own. ↗

— Nakia R. Laushaul

#inspirational #laziness #love #inspirational

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. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#coins #conclusion #courageous #fertile #guess