Spare Time Quotes

• Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  Edward Bernays

  Giving, Looks, Moments

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• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Happiness, Hate, Artist

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  No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

  Henry Rollins

  Life Time, Spares, Down Time

  Song: Shine

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• Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Waiting, Delay, Personal Development

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• I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

  Felicia Day

  Friday, Party, Night

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

  Casey Abrams

  Watching Tv, Tvs, Couches

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• When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

  Tom Felton

  Book, Reading, Years

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• Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Thinking, Fiction Novels, Years

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• You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.

  Nick Offerman

  Cutting, Hands, Waiting

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• People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

  Kim Harrison

  Believe, People, Looks

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• Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Past, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

  Kiana Tom

  Calendars, Busy, Spares

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• Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

  Kevin Garnett

  Games, Video, Gamer

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• I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

  Moby

  People, Guilt, Relax

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• That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

  Eric Gill

  Men, Doe, Slavery

  Art-nonsense and Other Essays (1929) "Slavery and Freedom"

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• Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

  Tyson Chandler

  Wind, Relax, Paint

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• As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, People, Journalism

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.83, Crown Archetype

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• I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean glanced at him. "And?" "I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Giving Up, Vampire

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• Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Book, Writing, Science

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

  Rowan Pelling

  Phones, Elderly, Editors

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• Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

  Allison Pearson

  Running, Country, Home

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• Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Jobs, Writing, Answers

  Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  Gary Burton

  People, Listening, Records

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• You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!

  Duane G. Carey

  Hobbies, Way, Wanted

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