Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

Warren Buffett

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

Warren Buffett

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Wendy Wasserstein

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

Yann Martel

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

I need to see what (the Eagles) do if T.O. is in the slot . . . What do they do? It's scheme; it's not just one man.

Larry David

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

Leo Tolstoy

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Joseph Epstein

I know how deeply slothful I am.

John Ortberg

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

John Lyly

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Charlie Munger

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Benjamin Franklin

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

William Shakespeare

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

William Shakespeare

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

Michael Flanders

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

James Lee Burke

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

Christopher Isherwood

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.

Eugene H. Peterson

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

Francis Bacon

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Henry David Thoreau

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Henry David Thoreau

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

Horace

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

He can find the back of the net. That is important. I would take him any day. I would take him in the slot anytime. You give him a little time, and he will make you pay.

When Jabar's healthy, he's one of the top slot (inside) receivers in the game. When he comes back, we know he's going to make a lot of big plays.

I feel I could be walking down the street, and if somebody talked to me, I could just slot into 'Miss Marple' and know how she would react.