#laziness

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#laziness #trouble

Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#laziness #life-and-living-life-lessons #work-ethic #life

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly. ↗

— Paul Rudnick

#procrastination #writing #procrastination

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#laziness #london #watson #nature

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

— Walter Annenberg

#boredom #hold #into #knots #laziness

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

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ↗

— Larry Wall

#hubris #impatience #laziness #programmer #three

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #complication #devil #emotions #energy

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

— Bern Williams

#i #indolence #laziness #like #makes