Recreation Quotes

• Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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• Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

  Brigham Young

  Sleep, People, Balance

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• Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

  Brigham Young

  Pyramids, Serious, Pursuit

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• The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

  Jack Canfield

  Successful, People, Balance

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

  John Wanamaker

  Funny, Time, Pyramids

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

  Edward Bellamy

  Life, Bread, Firsts

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.99, VM eBooks

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• The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, Stronger

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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, Leisure

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

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• Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Kindness, People, Democracy

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• I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fitness, Health, Order

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.752, Simon and Schuster

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• Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pyramids, Together, More Time

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• Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

  Joseph Hall

  Mind, Dull, Scythes

  Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Latin theology with translations”, p.174

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

  Orville Dewey

  Men, Leisure, Labor

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• Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

  Ray Manzarek

  Drug, Psychedelic, Used

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• The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Bows, Bent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.337, Wordsworth Editions

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• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Escaping, Effort

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• God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

  Izaak Walton

  Berries, Innocence, Calm

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1775). “The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...”, p.125

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• Health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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• Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Hard Work, Matter

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

  Orville Dewey

  Sleep, Men, Relaxation

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• Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

  Alan Parker

  Black And White, Periods, Difficult

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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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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• Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young

  Susa Young Gates

  Sleep, Eight, Hours

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• Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Practice, Should, Chores

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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