Leisure Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.

  Robin Sharma

  Average, Obsessed, Exceptional

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• Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll be a life where there’s more time for leisure - for enriching each other’s lives rather than just running to stand still. In other words, more holiday time! So a holiday is absolutely the appropriate way to help us focus on it and make it a reality soon.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Running, Holiday, Reality

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• NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.

  Micky Arison

  Vacation, Marketing, Stronger

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• To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God's love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.

  John Stott

  Home, Self Worth, Reality

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• O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship.

  John Baillie

  Morning, Order, Giving

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• The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Grief, Fall

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.306

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• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

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• Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Girl, Passion, Heart

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.256

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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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• The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Appreciation, Adventure, Past

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• Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Memories, Self, Giving

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

  Alexander Lowen

  Sex, Physicians, Way

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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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• Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Children, Teaching, School

  Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg (2008). “Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track”, p.3, Pearson Prentice Hall

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• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

  William Wilberforce

  Ignorance, Men, World

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

  Vernon Lee

  Mean, Defined, Felt

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

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

  John Dewey

  Doe, May, Matter

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.244, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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• As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

  Brigid Schulte

  People, Becoming, Week

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Physicians, Tuition

  Hippocrates (2007). “The Law”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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