Shirley MacLaine Quotes

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

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

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I am capable of being idle.

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

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

I'm a lazy sod.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

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

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

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

I dream too much, work too little.

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

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

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.