Leisure Time Quotes - Page 3

• A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Men, Safety, Toil

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1898). “Essays on Work and Culture”

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• To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Reading, Today, Leisure

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

  Katharine Anthony

  Mother, Long, Relaxation

  KATHARINE ANTHONY “MOTHERS WHO MUST LEARN”

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• Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Holiday, Mean

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• There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Beautiful, Real, Sunday

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• I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Thinking, Excess Baggage

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• 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

  Exercise, Adults, Leisure

  Paul Zane Pilzer (2012). “The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Years, Want, Leisure

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman, Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.

  Michael Ventura

  Religious, Art, Creativity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Mean, Writing

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.36, Penguin

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• We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sleep, Cutting, Practice

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• I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

  Fred Armisen

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Fun, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!

  Brian Chippendale

  Art, Cereal, People

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.

  Michael Marmot

  Sex, Pain, Cancer

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• I went to my old school, where all the kids I'd been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the sisters wanted me to repeat the whole term; so I went to the principal and pleaded with her to allow me to graduate with my class. She finally agreed on the condition that I write the graduation play. It was called How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?Catchy title, huh?

  George Carlin

  School, Kids, Writing

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• ...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better education, a higher standard of living, more leisure time and far more possibilities-without the global environment being destroyed.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Country, Children, Energy

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• Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

  Horace

  Sleep, Wine, Leisure

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• The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.

  George Gilder

  America, Benefits, Leisure

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• Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.

  James L Hymes

  Children, Memories, Thinking

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• Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life.

  Dorothy Kelley Patterson

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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• Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Society, Doe

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• It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

  Spider Robinson

  Fun, Smart, Hard Work

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• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Crazy, Military, War

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