Recreation Quotes
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I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
Vangelis Aphrodite's Child -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
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 -
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
Vladimir Lenin
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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 -
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 -
The best recreation is to do good.
William Penn -
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
Confucius -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
Tom Stoppard -
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 -
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
Brigham Young
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
Albert Camus -
Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
Lewis Carroll -
In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.
George M. Church