Lazy Genius Quotes

#1. The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius.

Om Swami

#2. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.

Rob Brezsny

#3. HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

Rob Brezsny

#4. I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

Bernard Hopkins

#5. If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.

Laurie Penny

#6. Adapt and survive. Make do and mend. These were good mottos for a time traveller.

Alastair Reynolds

#7. I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

Paul Graham

#8. A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

David Ricardo

#9. No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.

W.H. Davies

#10. A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

Ryan Reynolds

#11. Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

William Zinsser

#12. We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

Stephan Kinsella

#13. Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.

Tippi Hedren

#14. The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

Anonymous