It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
We are not the slaves of laziness, we are the slaves of WiFi.
The only menace is inertia.
It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness.
The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone. . . So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.
For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Which is the most universal human characteristic: Fear or laziness?
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.
There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.
