Loafing Quotes:

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

- Robert Baden-Powell

topic: Sunday, Day Of Rest, Loafing

I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.

- Rowan Atkinson

topic: Girl, Drinking, Upper Class, Galloping, Loafing

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

- Zig Ziglar

source: Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: People, Giving, Satisfaction, Loafing

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Art, Ideas, Two, Loafing

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

- David Morrissey

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

topic: Planning, Chill, Daydreaming, Loafing

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Leisure, Easy, Difficult, Loafing

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Learning, Loafing

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Sleep, Inspirational School, Midterms

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

- Larry Bird

topic: Basketball, Sports, Nba, Loafing, Basketball Player

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things

- John Walter Bratton

topic: Retirement, Lazy, Leisure, Loafing, Lounging

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

- Jacques Barzun

topic: Mother, Creativity, Gestation, Loafing

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

- Beryl Markham

source: Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.171, Open Road Media

topic: Journey, Ideas, Want, Loafing

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Book, Writing, Loafing

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

- Ford Frick

topic: Honest, Trouble, Reviews, Loafing

Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.

- Susan Cain

source: Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.89, Broadway Books

topic: Block, Stupid, Ideas, Loafing, Brainstorming

The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Sunday, Dancing, Cedars, Whimsical, Deliberation

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Lakes, Sea, Fishing, Loafing

I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine." "Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.

- Shannon Hale

source: Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.16, A&C Black

topic: Children, Sky, Hobbies, Loafing

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

- John Hay

source: John Hay (1871). “Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces”, p.16

topic: Children, Thinking, Sight, Loafing

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

- James Norman Hall

topic: Writing, Productive, Loafing

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

- E.F. Benson

source: E. F. Benson (2015). “Spook Stories - Complete Collection: 25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales”, p.80, e-artnow

topic: Sea, Employment, Apotheosis, Basking, Loafing

I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth.

- Jim Henson

topic: Real, Thinking, Vacation, Loafing, Working Long Hours

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

- Edwin Moses

source: Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

topic: Competition, Beats, Competitors, Loafing

I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

- Tom Hodgkinson

topic: Holiday, Order, Needs, Hammocks, Loafing

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

- David McCullough

topic: Enjoy, Feels, Higher, Loafing