A Quote by Kingsley Amis

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

Kingsley Amis

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Become Characteristic Chief Incompetence Journalism Laziness

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Kingsley Amis
English - Novelist
April 22, 1922 - October 22, 1995

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

Michael E. DeBakey

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

James Cash Penney

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

Rands

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.

Michael Wolff

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

Louis Mackey

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Kim Stanley Robinson

In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.

James Howard Kunstler

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Larry Wall

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

Gus Van Sant

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Isaac Asimov

One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

Dalai Lama

What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

Louis Mackey

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.