Lazy Quotes - page 3

There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm...Second, there are the hard-working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard-working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office. (Erich von Manstein)
...I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility. View quote
Mark Twain
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs. View quote
John Backus
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. View quote
Milan Kundera
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. View quote
Mark Haddon
Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy. View quote
Melina Marchetta
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl. View quote
Rebecca Wells
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. View quote
Regina Brett
I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard. View quote
Seth Rogen
Half of Americans look at the other half and say, they're too lazy or they're not willing to get up and go to school. And the other half looks and sees a bunch of fat cats and talks about income inequality. View quote
Todd G. Buchholz
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. (Walter Chrysler)
Then shut up or grab a sword and come help. (Takeshi) Is that a challenge? (Savitar) It would be if I didn't know for a fact that you're too lazy to rise to one. (Takeshi) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy. View quote
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. -Matthias. View quote
Brian Jacques
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. View quote
Donna Leon
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. View quote
Douglas Preston
At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef. View quote
Eric McCormack
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel. View quote
Louise Penny
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. View quote
Michel De Certeau
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late. View quote
Jane Howard
When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy. (Diablo Cody)
For a lazy man I work awfully hard, I couldn't live without acting. In fact anybody who can live without that feeling is a complete idiot. View quote
Peter Lorre
Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly." Aphrodite. View quote
P. C. Cast
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
I'm just really a lazy homebody. View quote
Amy Brenneman