#laziness

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Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow


Gloria Pitzer


#procrastination #procrastination

It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has its genuine therapeutic value; we would be better for it, would be able to work more effectively. We have little doubt that all this was true, but we wish we could build as good a rationalization every time we are lazy. For in some beastly way this fine laziness has got itself a bad name. It is easy to see how it might have come into disrepute, if the result of laziness were hunger. But it rarely is. Hunger makes laziness impossible. It has even become sinful to be lazy. We wonder why. One could argue, particularly if one had a gift for laziness, that it is relaxation pregnant of activity, a sense of rest from which directed effort may arise, whereas most busy-ness is merely a kind of nervous tic. ... How can such a process have become a shame and a sin? Only in laziness can one achieve a state of contemplation which is a balancing of values, a weighing of oneself against the world and the world against itself. A busy man cannot find time for such balancing. We do not think a lazy man can commit murders, nor great thefts, nor lead a mob. He would be more likely to think about it and laugh. And a nation of lazy contemplative men would be incapable of fighting a war unless their very laziness were attacked. Wars are the activities of busy-ness.


John Steinbeck


#contemplation #laziness #war #business

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.


Mark Kennedy


#airplane #automobile #biggest #computer #created

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

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.


Joyce Chapman


#dreams #hard-work #laziness #dreams

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.


Paul Terry


#humor #laziness #misattributed-to-hutchins #humor

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.


Denzel Washington


#frightened #given #i #laziness #more

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

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.


James Cash Penney


#incompetence #last #laziness #luck #refuge