“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value.”

“I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all interested in making any progress in life, I might take a moment and consider the fact that two-thirds of these begin and end in the same place.”

“Most criminals in prison can trace their crime to their first murderous act—that of killing time.”

“I’m not only lazy myself, but I inspire laziness in others.”

“I’m not only lazy myself but I inspire laziness in others”

“The lazy will always attribute genius to some ‘inspiration’ that comes for mere waiting.”

“knowledge without application is like a book that is never read’ Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.”

“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It’s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”

“If brainstorming becomes ‘blamestorming’ by reason of time pressure or on account of pure laziness, the truth may be assaulted and unyieldingly vilified . Blamestorming becomes then downright a perfidious appeal to scapegoating with a torrent of frantic manhunts for ‘culprits on duty’. (‘Blamestorming’)”

“The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.”

“I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”