Recreation Quotes - Page 7

• Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

  Pericles

  Work, Able, Poverty

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• The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

  Frederick Rolfe

  Wall, Liars, Students

  Frederick Rolfe (1931). “A History of the Borgias”

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• Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Work, Law, Firsts

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• Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Work, Law, Numbers

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• Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Organization, Principles

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• Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Work, Political, Relaxation

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• Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that we see - work, recreation, sports, home, in magazines, on television.  There is absolutely nothing beneficial about gossip - it hurts everyone involved

  Lori Palatnik

  Sports, Hurt, Home

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• The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

  Philip Guedalla

  Mind, Detectives, Normal

  Quoted in Dorothy L. Sayers, The Omnibus of Crime (1929)

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• Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Christian, Heart, Sleep

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Cancer, Health

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• It gets late early out there.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Work

  Quoted in Sporting News, 7 Aug. 1971. Berra says in The Yogi Book (1998) that he was referring here to the difficulty of playing left field in Yankee Stadium in late autumn when "the shadows would creep up on you and you had a tough time seeing the ball off the bat."

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• The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

  Joseph Heller

  Strong, Work, Humorous

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• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Sports, Retirement, Motivation

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• To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.

  Prentice Mulford

  Art, Hard Work, Play

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “The Prentice Mulford Premium Collection: “New Thought” Studies, Novels & Memoirs: Thoughts Are Things, The God In You, Your Forces and How to Use Them, Life By Land and Sea, Swamp Angel and more (Wisdom & Empowerment Series)”, p.441, e-artnow

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• High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.

  Edmund Muskie

  Dream, Rivers, Water

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• It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Health, Healing

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• Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

  Francis Quarles

  Leisure, Slave, Servant

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Garden, Cities

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Idaho, People, Needs

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• The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Frederick Law Olmsted (2016). “Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society”, p.426, Library of America

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• Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Hands, Brain, Occupation

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• There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Baseball, Stars, Years

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

  Rick Ross

  Fun, Writing, Mean

  "13 Questions With Rick Ross". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

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• The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

  George M. Church

  Risk, Neanderthals, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Luck, Men, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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