I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha ChristieWe revel in the laxness of the path we take.
Charles BaudelaireLaziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.
That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...
Tags: reason nature mankind danger laziness cowardice competence tutelage pastor physician
Laziness is the first step towards efficiency.
Patrick BennettFolks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
Elbert HubbardTags: laziness initiative enterprise
So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much.
Jack LondonTags: progress work laziness fools wise
i have no point in procrastinating any longer..
Flora Rheta SchreiberSloth 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.
Benjamin Franklinknowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.
Christopher CrawfordTags: knowledge laziness pointless application lovelystuff
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.
W.H. AudenTags: past laziness impatience future-and-present
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