Leisure Quotes - Page 29

• What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Secret, Able, Bears

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• Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

  Witold Rybczynski

  Eye, Television Watching, Ears

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• I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.

  Joy Behar

  Art, Book, Sunday

  "Joy Behar Discusses HLN Show: Wants Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sees Show As Sunday Times". Interview with Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

  Linda Gray

  Blessed, Trying, Bits

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• The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.

  Robert Updegraff

  Learning, Purpose, Hours

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• It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Creativity, Space, Imagination

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.150, Penguin

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• Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Suffering, Idlers, Action

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• The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

  Clement Greenberg

  Culture, Carrying On, Tradition

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Society, Wealth, Form

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.115

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• Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.

  Po Bronson

  Relaxation, Trying, Active

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• Small leisure have the poor for grief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Grief, Poverty, Poor

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1875). “Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl”, p.44

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• Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

  Plutarch

  Should, Elders

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". Book by Plutarch. "32 Dionysius". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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