Jules Shear Quotes

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.

I am often driven by necessity, rather than actually doing things like an adult.

I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.

I was a very bad student... I was ahead in many things, but when the time came to study, I just made a face and used to feel bad that I had to study.

I am an immature person, and I am very lazy, too.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

I have met a lot of guys in their 40s who have the maturity of a 15 - year-old and men in their 20s who have older sensibilities. They just need to live in their own apartment. That's kind of a deal breaker.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.

It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

Act your age, not your shoe size.