Leisure Quotes - Page 11

• I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Musical, Theatre

  "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Horse, House, Cooking

  "Designer Q&A: LisaRaye on PZI Jeans". Interview with Elliana Placas, www.essence.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

  Aristotle

  Education, Children, War

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3137, Delphi Classics

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• Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.

  Bernard Berenson

  Years, Play, Creative

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Falling In Love, Wine, Play

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• Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

  Aristotle

  Education, Principles, Use

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2122, Princeton University Press

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• Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

  Aristotle

  Education, Men, Giving

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

  Aristotle

  War, Class, Soul

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2115, Princeton University Press

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• Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Order, Law

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Educational, People, Leaving

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• Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.

  Emily Oster

  Jobs, Passion, Thinking

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• The first principle of all action is leisure.

  Aristotle

  Principles, Firsts, Action

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2122, Princeton University Press

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• It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dog, Cat, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• The atoms of Democritus
  And Newton's particles of light
  Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
  Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Light, Israel, Sea

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.108, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

  Renzo Piano

  Islands, Years, Sailing

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• The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1619, Delphi Classics

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• I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Men, Wife

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Faith, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Attitude, Golf

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• We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

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• Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Hard Work, Play, People

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• We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Order, Waiting, World

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “Illustrations and Meditations: Or, Flowers from a Puritan's Garden”

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• The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Wise, Distance, Character

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• There is no leisure about politics.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

  Alain de Botton

  Greek, Rewards, Satisfaction

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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