Avoiding Work Quotes

The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a barely eaten Danish and what was probably her fourth cup of coffee. We slid into seats beside her. "How's it—hey! You ARE playing Minesweeper!

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping."

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

I have a friend who's collecting unemployment insurance. This guy has never worked so hard in his life as he has to keep this thing going. He's down there every week, waiting on the lines and getting interviewed and making up all these lies about looking for jobs. If they had any idea of the effort and energy that he is expending to avoid work, I'm sure they'd give him a raise.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!