Leisure Quotes
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I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.
Shawn Achor
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It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.
Spider Robinson
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
Alexandre Dumas
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Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
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I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...
Brigid Schulte
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There is no leisure about politics.
Thomas Aquinas
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
William Taylor
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
Sallust
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You can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.
Margaret Mitchell
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In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.
William Bernard Ziff, Jr.
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Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
William Russell