Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy."
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Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent."
Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
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"Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions."
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"Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy."
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"One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge."
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"The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone."
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"Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action."
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"You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."
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"I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time."
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"Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us."
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"Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it."
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"Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do"
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"The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to."
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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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"Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic."
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"There are no ugly women, only lazy."
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"There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that."
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"It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . ."
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"Organized people are just too lazy to look for things"
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"Every man is as lazy as he dares to be."
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"There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired."
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"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience."
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