A young man idle, an old man needy.
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A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
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Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. by
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
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It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
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Hard work has future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
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If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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