Leisure Quotes
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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.
Jane Austen
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
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There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.
Aristotle
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Who has more leisure than a worm?
Seneca the Younger
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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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If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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There is no leisure about politics.
Thomas Aquinas
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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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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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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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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Seneca the Younger
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Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
William Russell
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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.
Ray Bradbury
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Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
William Shakespeare
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Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.
Gary Gutting
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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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Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
Raymond Cruz
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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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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
Steve Earle