So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.
I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.
There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.
It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.
Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.
The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won't take it when you choose not to put in the effort.
I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
We don’t use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.
There's just a lot of really young, entitled people. I don't think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They're found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio, so they think they can get anything they want.
Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.
Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
No one wants to work for what they have, to achieve a goal. No one wants to step outside of the house and go for a long run and sweat. Everybody wants to run inside the house, the treadmill. They want to trim up a little excess body fat, but they don't want to diet and train. Go straight to the lipo and whatever else they do. The easy way out.
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
It's not hard to look great against a guy who isn't moving a lot.
When people pitch me their ideas in a T-shirt and jeans it shows they can't be bothered.
There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
I don't work that hard.
