Work Avoidance Quotes

I have a policy that I don't actually watch the work that I do. There are all kinds of reasons to do that, but one really interesting side effect that has come about from that is that I have no imagery of the show that isn't from first-person.

However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

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.

Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I don't want to have a real job. No one wants to have a job.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

I don't really do that much office work. I just go to the office, and I'm like Steve Carell in 'The Office.' You know, like, I just go around and like - I don't know what I do in the office. I look at paperwork and act like I'm understanding what's going on there, and I shake my head and put my hand on my chin and like, 'Hmm.'

I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.