#laziness

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#opportunity #work #work

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#attainment #good #laziness #never #wish

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

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

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

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. ↗

— Mary Garden

#discipline #due #factors #lack #laziness

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

— James Cash Penney

#incompetence #last #laziness #luck #refuge

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ↗

— Anne Frank

#appear #attractive #gives #laziness #may

How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#defer #delay #dilly-dallying #laziness #postpone