Top 1200 Intellectual Laziness Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

What is the role of a public intellectual in the age of Twitter and soundbites? Is it to share your thoughts for the public good, or is it to curate the heaps of hate emails, tweets, and right-wing articles that trash your intellectual and social work?

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

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

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.

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!

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.

I think sometimes with experience, it brings a sense of laziness and complacency. I try not to get complacent.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own intellectual framework. Then there's what happens when it's your photograph. Then it's personal, and that's all I'll say.

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.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

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.

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.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world continues to be effective as a dynamic force (in the intellectual world) and precisely the unfulfilled ideals prove to be the most invincible.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

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.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to.