Milan Kundera Quotes

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Deep down inside, I am lazy.

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

I am capable of being idle.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

When people are successful, they usually become lazy.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

He who does not want does not act.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.

I just always wanted to stay busy.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.