quotes about Leisure
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-- Abigail Adams -
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
-- Alexander Lowen -
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[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.
-- Allan Bloom -
If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy CarmichaelSource : Anna Laetitia Waring, “Father, I Know That All My Life”
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A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise
-- Anna Laetitia Waring -
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The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
-- Aristotle -
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.
-- Arne Garborg -
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The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
-- Arthur Lacey -
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,
-- Ben GoldacreSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
-- Bertrand Russell -
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The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.
-- Bob BlackSource : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd
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When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
-- Boy George -
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How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
-- Branch Rickey -
I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder.
-- Brigid Schulte -
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
-- Brigid SchulteSource : Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time”, p.32, Macmillan
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Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
-- C. Wright Mills -
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
-- Chilon of Sparta -
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.
-- Clement GreenbergSource : "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, pp. 31-32: "The Plight of Culture" (1953), 1961.
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The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.
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A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.
-- David RiesmanSource : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.162, Transaction Publishers
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Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
-- Dorothy Allison -
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius -
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All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
-- Edmund White -
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
-- Elfriede JelinekSource : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.67, Profile Books
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Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.
-- Farkas Bolyai -
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Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
-- Francis Quarles -
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises...
-- Galileo Galilei -
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.
-- Gary Gygax -
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A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
-- Gelett Burgess -
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
-- George Eastman -
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
-- George Eliot -
Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.
-- George Gissing -
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Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
-- Guy Debord -
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
-- Guy Debord -
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
-- H. G. Wells -
We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
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Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
-- Harriet Martineau -
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
-- Henry James -
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
-- Herman Melville -
Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
-- Hillel the Elder -
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau -
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them.
-- Jacques Ellul -
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Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.
-- James Ellis -
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
-- James K. PolkSource : Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.261, Best Books on
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To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal
-- Jan StrutherSource : Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”
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I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
-- Jared Diamond -
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You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.
-- Jennifer James -
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.
-- Jeremy CollierSource : Jeremy Collier (1720). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.”, p.31
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Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?
-- John Sullivan Dwight -
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Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things
-- John Walter Bratton -
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
-- Josef Pieper -
The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.
-- Josef Pieper -
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.
-- Kató Lomb -
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.
-- Linda Gray -
There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?
-- Louis O. Kelso -
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
-- Madame Roland -
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Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.
-- Margaret KennedySource : Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.75, Random House
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I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.
-- Mark GatissSource : "What I see in the mirror: Mark Gatiss" by Mark Gatiss, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.
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Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
-- Mary Ritter Beard -
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the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.
-- Mary RuefleSource : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.126, Wave Books
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What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
-- Matthew Arnold -
My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.
-- Michael Strahan -
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.
-- Monty Woolley -
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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
-- Mortimer Adler -
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
-- Nan FairbrotherSource : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
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The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
-- Oliver DeMille -
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The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.
-- Patrick Murray -
Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.
-- Paul Zane Pilzer -
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
-- Peg BrackenSource : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.
-- Peter Drucker -
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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
-- Plato -
Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.
-- Po Bronson -
I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
-- Prince Philip -
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -