Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.
Tom Hodgkinson
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As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Jordan Peterson
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank
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I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.
Martin McDonagh
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I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bernard Williams
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Walter Annenberg
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis
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Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.
John Hurt
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I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.
Tom Odell
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WWE has no issues with my stand-up. I do not miss work for any reason and will continue to work around my schedule because I'm a professional and do not allow complacency or laziness.
Dolph Ziggler
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I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.
Asif Kapadia
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis
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The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.
Alexandra Fuller
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
Victoria Beckham
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Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half
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Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.
Tom Tancredo
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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
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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.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.
Justin Kirk
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Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
Alber Elbaz
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
Vikram Seth
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I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.
Joanna Lumley
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We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.
Matthew Walker
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