Leisure Quotes
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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.
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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
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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.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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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.
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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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.
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I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...
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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.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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.
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There is no leisure about politics.
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Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.
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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.
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Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
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Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
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No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.
