Loafing Quotes

• I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Girl, Drinking, Upper Class

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• Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Giving, Satisfaction

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Inspiration, Eight

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• Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

  David Morrissey

  Planning, Chill, Daydreaming

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

  Peter Drucker

  Leisure, Easy, Difficult

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.238, Routledge

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• The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

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• Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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• Free... Yes...FREE time
  Is what retirement brings
  Leisure, lounging and loafing
  And other lazy things

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Lazy, Leisure

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• In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mother, Creativity, Able

  Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”

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• A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

  Beryl Markham

  Journey, Ideas, Want

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

  Gertrude Stein

  Book, Writing

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• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick

  Honest, Trouble, Reviews

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• Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.

  Susan Cain

  Block, Stupid, Ideas

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.89, Broadway Books

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• The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

  Wendell Berry

  Sunday, Dancing, Cedars

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• Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

  E. W. Howe

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine." "Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.

  Shannon Hale

  Children, Sky, Hobbies

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.16, A&C Black

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• Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Sunday, Day Of Rest

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• I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

  John Hay

  Children, Thinking, Sight

  John Hay (1871). “Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces”, p.16

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• Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

  James Norman Hall

  Writing, Productive

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• ...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

  E.F. Benson

  Sea, Employment, Apotheosis

  E. F. Benson (2015). “Spook Stories - Complete Collection: 25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales”, p.80, e-artnow

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• I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth.

  Jim Henson

  Real, Thinking, Vacation

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• One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

  Edwin Moses

  Competition, Beats, Competitors

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Inspirational, Holiday, Order

  "The Idler's view" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2005.

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• I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

  David McCullough

  Enjoy, Feels, Higher

  David McCullough (2007). “Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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