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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.»
Author: Elizabeth Hurley
(Actress, Model)
| Keywords:
chronic, heavenly, irritates, laziness, sloth, The Chronic
«Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now»
Author: Larry Kersten
(Author, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
laziness, paid off, pay off, procrastination
«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.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
academic, academic freedom, aspect, cerebral, cherished, cover for, inadequacies, inadequacy, laziness, literary, literary criticism, specialization, terminal, terminals, The Terminal
«No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
idleness, laziness, procrastination, put off
«Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.»
«So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Apathy,
Laziness,
Sin
| Keywords:
aggressive, apathy, effects, greed, laziness, passive, too little, tragic
«My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
alertness, All Over Me, animal fiber, asleep, by me, countenance, degrees, delightful, effeminacy, eleven, enticement, faintness, fibers, frown, languor, laziness, lilies, no show, pass by, pearl, relaxed, sensation, slumbered, The Animal, unbearable
«Remember, every song sung in praise of the Lord is a sword that cuts the knots of laziness. It is a fine piece of social service to remind all of their duty to the Almighty, who watches over them.?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
Almighty, cuts, knots, knotted, laziness, remind, social service, Sung, the Almighty