Penn Jillette

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

American Entertainer

Rick Tumlinson

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.

American Businessman

Tom Hodgkinson

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

British Writer

Jaime Pressly

Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.

American Dancer

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Indian Actor

Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

American Politician

Roger Ailes

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

Kingsley Amis

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

English Novelist

Harold Ramis

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

American Actor

Susan Glaspell

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

American Playwright

Laziness often has a negative connotation suggesting lack of motivation.

Negative Tone

Use 'laziness' when discussing the need to improve work ethic or productivity.

Overcoming Barriers

'Laziness' can imply a consistent behavior rather than a temporary state.

Behavioral Trait

'Laziness' can refer to a relaxed pace, not necessarily negative.

Leisurely Tempo

Laziness can be temporary, like taking a break after hard work.

Occasional Rest

One person's 'laziness' might be another's 'relaxation'.

Subjective View

 there laziness you know you've got extremely rough terrain back here you don't necessarily have to worry about people coming in from this side but the road is that natural line of drift and that high-speed avenue of approach that you're gonna really need to keep your eyes on and protect today Brian will

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 experience, or the way that a poet might have some inspired rhapsody with a lover and then he comes back and then writes a few words that touch a billion people. People say some things just can't be put into words. I disagree. I think that's a form of laziness. I think that what's magical about words

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 that are larger than the workers, although they disapproved of the drones' laziness because they could see that the drones just hang around the hive until the mating flight -- they're the males. They hang around until the mating flight, but they don't participate in gathering nectar or pollen.

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 And I don't think Sunday football-watching and general laziness is the cause. I think the cause is more complicated. I think, as a society, we put more pressure on our boys to succeed than we do on our girls. I know men that stay home and work in the home to support wives with careers,

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 but laziness pays off right now." And patients also have present bias. If you have high blood pressure, even if you would desperately like to avoid a stroke, and you know that taking your antihypertensive medications is one of the best ways to reduce that risk,

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 Her specialty is studying procrastination, and she knows that the root of procrastination is actually something far sneakier than laziness. It's not about avoiding work. It's about avoiding feelings. More specifically, negative emotions.

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 Of course, failing fast is a great way to accelerate learning and avoid wasting time. But I fear that when we present rapid failure to entrepreneurs as their one and only option, we might be promoting laziness.

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 unpleasant characteristics that we chalk up to being a teenager -- moodiness, irritability, laziness, depression -- could be a product of chronic sleep deprivation. For many teens battling chronic sleep loss,

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 three-toed sloth just sleeping right there look at that despite their reputation for laziness sloths spend more time awake than asleep they are polyphasic active for periods

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 I believe it is now time for us to reclaim our right to a full night of sleep, and without embarrassment or that unfortunate stigma of laziness.