Leisure Quotes - Page 18

• I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.

  Jack Kirby

  Morning, Home, Night

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Reflection, Clouds, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

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• I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure.

  Yosa Buson

  Flower

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• Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Giving, Office

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.164

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• Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

  Edward Young

  Pain, Wheels, Drag

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.15

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• He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

  John Locke

  Use, Recreation

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.236

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• The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.

  Paul Goodman

  Running, Long, Important

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.155, New York Review of Books

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• the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Intimate, Conversation

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.126, Wave Books

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• It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.

  Byllye Avery

  Wise, Morning, Feelings

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• Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving, Roving, Good Things

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• No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Country, Civilization, Class

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• I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

  Elsa Barker

  Lazy, Mind, Wish

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

  Eddie Murphy

  People, Gentleman, Fifty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Musical, Theatre

  "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.

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• For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Adversity, Everyday, Vexation

  Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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• We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Survival, Needs

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.

  Julian Huxley

  Two, World, Needs

  "Prof. Huxley Predicts 2-Day Working Week". The New York Times (p. 42), November 17, 1930.

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• The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

  B. C. Forbes

  Real, Men, Years

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• To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

  George Soros

  Successful, Hands, Needs

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• I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

  Neil Kinnock

  Advice, Adults, Experts

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• I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Horse, House, Cooking

  "Designer Q&A: LisaRaye on PZI Jeans". Interview with Elliana Placas, www.essence.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Long, Sloth, Doe

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• Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.

  Shawn Achor

  Real, Views, Waste

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• My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Beautiful, Song, War

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• Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

  Frances Wright

  Mind, Church, Analysis

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.46

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