Leisure Quotes - Page 12

• The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

  Max Weber

  Religious, Emotional, Class

  Max Weber (1952). “The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism”, p.84, Vani Prakashan

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• It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Long, Doubt

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• Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Sunday, Language

  Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.67, Profile Books

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• The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Prayer, Spirit

  Thomas Merton, (2013). “Thomas Merton - Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.51, Read Books Ltd

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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

  Way, Making Money

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• White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all true and good. But it also suggests that there is an individual approach to the issues that many of these white people have taken up as a recognition of their tie to and responsibility for some of the inequities that exist. And I don't think it has to be an either-or. I think it has to be a bifocal approach.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Taken, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities - and greater rewards - are almost certain to come to him.

  B. C. Forbes

  Time, Responsibility, Men

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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

  Girlfriend, Quality, Firsts

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

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• This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood.

  John R. Commons

  Work, Childhood, Leaving

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• Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

  Orville Dewey

  Men, Recreation, Labor

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• The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, More Time, Buisness

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• English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

  Winston Churchill

  Inheritance, Literature, Treasure

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• It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

  Lin Yutang

  Space, Rooms, Hours

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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

  Francis Quarles

  Slave, Recreation, Servant

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• Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Dollars, Use, Dozen

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• In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

  William Bernard Ziff, Jr.

  Golf, Fishing, Healthy

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• Who has more leisure than a worm?

  Seneca the Younger

  Worms

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• I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

  Winston Churchill

  Reading, My Friends, Consistently

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Children, Book

  "Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

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• Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.

  Rene Descartes

  Peaceful, Solitude, Mind

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• A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.

  Prince Philip

  Years, People, Mind

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• Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

  Vernon Lee

  Mean, Feelings, Mind

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cereal, Color

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

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• When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

  Gary Gygax

  Role Playing, Roles, Masters

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• The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

  Jaime Lerner

  Cities, Secret, Culture

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