Free Time Quotes

• Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

  Mike Dunlap

  Proportion, Direct

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  No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

  Henry Rollins

  Spare Time, Life Time, Spares

  Song: Shine

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• Free time keeps me going.

  Gus Van Sant

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Meaningless

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.765, Scholastic Inc.

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• I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

  Merritt Wever

  Worry, Next, Going To Work

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• Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

  Susan Cain

  New Year, Running, Home

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books

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• When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Writing, Shining, Lazy

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• In my free time, I love to lay in bed.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Bed, Lays

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• I spend most of my free time under the house.

  David Letterman

  House

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• You will be amazed at how much free time you have when you never have to think about money.

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, Amazed

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• In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

  Karl Marx

  Mathematical, Calculus, Integral Calculus

  Karl Marx (1983). “Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx”

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• We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

  Alex Bogusky

  Phones, Self, Boredom

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• Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Book, Waste, Terrible

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• Free time is the enemy of progress

  Casey Neistat

  Enemy Of Progress, Enemy, Progress

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• When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

  Leighton Meester

  Home, Thinking, Healthy

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• That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

  Diane Lane

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

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• I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Thinking, Connections

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.

  Deniece Schofield

  Home, Giving, Cheerful

  Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an Organized Homemaker: The Secrets of Uncluttering Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life”, Betterway Books

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• If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.

  John Avery

  Finding True Love, Easy, Findings

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• Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

  Howard Nemerov

  Writing, Should, Knows

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• free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dawn, Midnight, Rewards

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Dream, I Hate You

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.

  Yao Ming

  Jealous, Choices, Leisure

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• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Talking, Sometimes

  Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.5, Haymarket Books

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• Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Self, Years, Games

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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