Top 54 Lazy Thinking Quotes
#1. Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Timothy Ferriss
#2. I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.
Margaret Cho
#3. Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.
Asafa Powell
#5. Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.
Mary Quant
#6. I've always kept my overhead low so I could do whatever I want. I think of myself as lazy with spurts of getting a lot done. I find myself rooting against things sometimes because I get excited at the thought of a clean slate.
Sarah Silverman
#7. I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.
Usain Bolt
#8. The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.
Alain De Botton
#9. Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
Anthony De Mello
#10. I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
Sarah Dessen
#11. I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.
Corey Taylor
#12. I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
Wale
#13. I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.
Peyton Manning
#14. Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#15. You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.
Terry Pratchett
#16. Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?
Ray Davies
#17. Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.
Jorge Luis Borges
#18. I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.
Karl Lagerfeld
#19. We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.
James Earl Jones
#20. As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.
Lyn Nofziger
#21. In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.
Dawna Markova
#22. One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.
Charles S. Price
#23. There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.
Richard Koch
#24. If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
Cyril Connolly
#25. Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is Parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.
Margaret Hodge
#27. How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
Bjork
#28. I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.
Jamie Bell
#29. Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.
Jeff Foxworthy
#30. Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?
Kevin Keck
#31. The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people
Robert Kiyosaki
#32. O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
Benjamin Franklin
#33. I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
Tony Goldwyn
#34. If you don't appear
at all one day they think you're lazy
or dead.
Frank O'Hara
#35. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..
Albert Einstein
#36. The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
Ben Elton
#37. Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
Muhammad Yunus
#38. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
#39. If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.
James Dobson
#40. I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#42. THE MISCONCEPTION: You procrastinate because you are lazy and can't manage your time well. THE TRUTH: Procrastination is fueled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking.
David McRaney
#43. Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby ... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.
Craig Parker
#44. I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.
Moby
#45. She told him to write a letter about what he felt for her.
He said that's impossible not because he was lazy to write but that letter would never end as he couldn't stop thinking about her even for a moment.
However, he could sum everything in three words
I LOVE YOU
Subhasis Das
#46. A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.
Rashad Evans
#47. People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.
Thomas Merton
#48. Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.
Robert Kiyosaki
#49. I don't want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year's resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I'm trying.
Blake Mills
#50. I never have goals or dreams. My sister says it's pathetic and lazy, but I had a goal, to tell jokes to pay bills and not have to live in a trailer. So, I think I'm living my fantasy. I don't have another.
Kathleen Madigan
#51. Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
Robert Caro
#52. Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#53. In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy ... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .
David Michie
#54. I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.
Javier Bardem
