No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
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.
Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.
The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.
It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.
The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.
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.
Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!
But poverty, with most who whimper forth
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.
I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.
Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.
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