Recreation Quotes

• I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

  

  Vangelis Aphrodite's Child
  • Work
  • Chaos
  • Function

• Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

  

  Michael Caine
  • Company
  • Insane
  • Crosses

• When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Joy
  • Exists

• The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Reality

• To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Joy
  • Dependent
  • Minister

• We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Perform
  • Tension
  • Taskmaster

• You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.

  

  Cotton Mather
  • Passionate
  • Studies
  • Recreation

• Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Chess
  • Occupation
  • Recreation

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

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Practice
  • Recreation
  • Chore

• The best recreation is to do good.

  

  William Penn
  • Philanthropy
  • Recreation
  • Quaker

• 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 The Doors
  • Universe
  • Drugs
  • Powers

• The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Master
  • Benevolence

• Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

  

  Confucius
  • Truth
  • Kindness
  • Recreation

• Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Different
  • Political

• A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Picture
  • Recreation
  • Illustration

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

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Human
  • Bent
  • Lawful

• Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Heart

• Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Theater
  • Recreation

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

  

  Brigham Young
  • Recreation
  • Diversion
  • Pursuits of life

• If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Society
  • Recreation
  • Adapts

• Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Photography
  • I Think
  • Recreation

• Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Great
  • Control
  • Drugs

• When I was growing up, I had a G.I. Joe doll, and now, to see a recreation of my character as an action figure ... it's strange. Because Worf doesn't really look like Michael Dorn without makeup, it's easier to separate myself from these recreations, but it's still strange, flattering, and weird all at the same time.

  

  Michael Dorn
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Easier

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