Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.
Negativity is basically laziness.
My comedy is romanticized laziness.
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of laziness or inability. It's just a matter of believing that what I'm doing is worthwhile, that it matters. I just make myself work. I just make myself go to work, whether I feel like it or not.
A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
We are not the slaves of laziness, we are the slaves of WiFi.
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.