I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.
Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.
Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.
No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.
Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Humans are lazy but not stupid.
I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.
We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.
I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
I'm not going out of my way to eat something that's not prepared for me.
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.
The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?
I do not like to write - I like to have written.
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
