While on the surface procrastination often looks like laziness, at the heart of it lies fear.
The food and the service, whether out of laziness or bad luck, can seem uneven.
Yet executives whose ineptitude or laziness makes their companies ripe for takeover also get rewarded sometimes.
My laziness, my avoidance of cleaning up after myself in real time, has caught up with me.
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Thanks to my rusty Italian and general laziness, I had ignored the sign marking the box as an emergency alarm.
High-performing team members then see their peers getting away with laziness and reduce their own input accordingly.
"There is occasional laziness in American orchestral playing, because people are just waiting for the downbeat, " he says.
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For some this smacks of laziness but there may also be "quasi-rational" processes at work, Prof Devlin says.
Still, my sister tried out Ann for a little while, until laziness prevailed and she went back to Anh.
More surprising than the falsehood, though, is the sheer laziness of the charge.
Usually in this segment, I try to call out horrible metaphors, lampoon bizarre choices and decry laziness.
Some media critics attribute their behavior to journalistic laziness and a desire to create sensational stories that will sell newspapers.
Other days it was clear upon reviewing sleep data that the accelerometer inside just can't differentiate between laziness and actual sleep.
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And politicians believe that every problem in society, from religious and racial segregation to obesity and laziness, has a solution involving schools.
To keep matters brief: it was more about laziness than a desire to use the trope to pander to a male audience.
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And I suffer from that special kind of laziness that comes from letting a problem fester until dealing with it becomes unthinkable.
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When things get staid and lose their volatility, the bad sides of human character get the upper hand: Greed and laziness.
Jim hates pack journalism, because it encourages laziness and dulls critical faculties.
Candidates may have gone to the best schools or may come across as charming and brilliant in interviews thus disguising their laziness, incompetence or nastiness.
Kolbert is convinced our slacker parenting skills are a reflection of a chronic laziness in our society, a sort of generalized sense of no-can-do.
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Having justice on your side is no excuse for intellectual laziness.
The most common place to find the non-scoopers at work is on the city sidewalks in residential areas, suggesting that either haste or laziness is the culprit.
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The next day another constituency of hunger, laziness, and procrastination argues persuasively that a box of doughnuts and an easy chair hold the secret to a meaningful life.
From that moment on the focus of my work shifted, I wanted to discover why we had allowed our environment to be so damaged by our greed and laziness.
It would be difficult to reinject people, their errors, their laziness, and, most important in this case, their slow typing back into the process and expect the same results.
In short, Americans have gotten incredibly sloppy about defining our interests, and Bolton, although far more colorful than most in his policy prescriptions, is perfectly emblematic of this intellectual laziness.
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It was sheer unimaginativeness and laziness and perhaps lack of motivation on Dr Brennan's part to allow this situation to develop as it did so that the level was so deplorable.
NGOs are human organisations, too, with all the scope for laziness, inefficiency and even corruption that any group of people risks falling into if it lacks either self-discipline or external scrutiny.
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