Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergey Galitsky

People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.

Bret Easton Ellis

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

Jamie Wyeth

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.

Jason Biggs

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

Edward Norton

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

Barbara Hershey

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Asia Argento

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Bear Bryant

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Bernard de Mandeville

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Jane Austen

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Jane Hirshfield

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

Charles Spurgeon

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Aleksandar Hemon

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.

Daniel Kahneman

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

George Herbert

Better never begin than never make an end.

Kingsley Amis

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

David Neumann

We are pretty complacent about vaccine-preventable diseases, primarily because the vaccines are so effective we rarely see the diseases. It's kind of out-of-sight, out-of-mind.

Jeb Bush

Whether or not this hurricane hits shore in Florida, we're going to have storm surges in the coastal areas. We're going to have high winds, hurricane force winds in some cases. People should not be complacent about this.

Dick Wolf

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

Christine Jacobs

We've been around for 25 years, but people are getting complacent again. Drunk driving deaths are going back up. There are a lot of people who are killed for no reason at all, because they're so preventable.

Nouriel Roubini

No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.

Lauren Pittman

We are just trying not to become complacent and just staying hungry. We're working hard to stay No. 1.

Derek Hough

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

John Hernandez

We get lazy and complacent and just don't want to do it because it's not our priority. Well, look at Katrina.

Octavio Paz

One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.