Slacker Quotes

“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.”
― Gregory Corso

“It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“How can you attain satisfaction if you have more excuses than action?”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.”
― Alan Rios

“Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880. ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'.”
― Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation

“You have a choice, you can be someone who makes it happen or someone who lets it happen.”
― Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville

“If I had a dollar for every single time [Stephen Malkmus] said, 'it doesn’t matter', I wouldn’t have to work.”
― Bryan Charles, Wowee Zowee

“Well, this time I'll be honest with you and let you in on it. Listen, in dreams and particularly in nightmares, caused perhaps by indigestion or whatever, a man may think up such artistic creations, such complex and realistic visions, events or even a whole world of events woven into a plot of such astounding details that even Leo Tolstoi himself could not invent them. And yet people who have such dreams don't have to be novelists but can be the most ordinary civil servants, newspapermen, priests, or anything . . . It creates, in fact, a most interesting problem: once, for instance, I heard a member of the government say that his best ideas came to him when he was asleep.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Then he continued: 'From the first day I met you, I knew better than to hope you might amount to anything. I saw no sign of promise, nothing in you that might suggest you might accomplish something worthwhile or even turn yourself into a respectable human being: nothing to shine or to shed light on anything ... There is nothing inside that head of yours but garbage and rocks.'"

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Then he continued: 'From the first day I met you, I knew better than to hope you might amount to anything. I saw no sign of promise, nothing in you that might suggest you might accomplish something worthwhile or even turn yourself into a respectable human being: nothing to shine or to shed light on anything ... There is nothing inside that head of yours but garbage and rocks.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Then he continued: 'From the first day I met you, I knew better than to hope you might amount to anything. I saw no sign of promise, nothing in you that might suggest you might accomplish something worthwhile or even turn yourself into a respectable human being: nothing to shine or to shed light on anything ... There is nothing inside that head of yours but garbage and rocks.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Having a job is tricky. You don't want to be so productive that you make your coworkers appear like slackers, and you don't want to do so little that your coworkers have to make up for your lack of effort.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Forget mindfulness. You just have to be a gorgeous lazy slacker.”
― Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

“Kafka knew precisely what he did *not* want: he did not even consider becoming an attorney or using his linguistic gifts to earn a living. Having his afternoons free was more important to him than the prospects of bourgeois prosperity [...] He often appeared passive and overly despondent, yet he stuck to his avoidance schemes even when they posed critical challenges to his psyche. It was as though he were carrying a compass that pointed out to him nothing but the *wrong* direction”
― Reiner Stach, Kafka: Die frühen Jahre

“School mascot by day, but by night...

I am also a school mascot.”
― Jordan Roberts, Robert L. Baird, and Daniel Gerson

“So invested is our manically productive culture in the image of us as active and purposeful beings that we seek to erase or destroy all evidence to the contrary — the slacker must put on a suit, get a job, lose his benefits and make himself useful. Harmlessly ineffective as he may be, we hate and fear him for showing us the useless dimension of our own selfhood, for voicing our own impulse not to go to work today, or tomorrow.”
― Josh Cohen, Not Working