A Quote by Michael E. DeBakey

I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness. — © Michael E. DeBakey
I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and the United States. Almost everywhere there seems to me to be an increase in incompetence and general dishonesty. This is what I mean about democracy - you feel that you've got the ability to arrange things and influence matters and it's not quite so easy as that, I'm afraid.
I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.
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.
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
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