Isaac Watts
Hymn Writer, Poet
"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
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Laziness
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
Patch Adams
Physician, Comedian
"See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!"
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen."
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"A writer's work is the product of laziness."
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"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
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"The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked."
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"Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men."
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"Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence."
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"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."
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"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."
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"That man is idle who can do something better."
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"Every man is as lazy as he dares to be."
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"Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst."
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"Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers."
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"Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you."
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"Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise."
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"I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows."
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"From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions."
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"Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another."
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"Talkers are no good doers."
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"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."
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"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy."
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