Recreation Quotes

• Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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• Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

  Brigham Young

  Sleep, People, Balance

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• Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

  Brigham Young

  Pyramids, Serious, Pursuit

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• If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

  Edward Bellamy

  Life, Bread, Firsts

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.99, VM eBooks

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• People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

  John Wanamaker

  Funny, Time, Pyramids

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• Art is both creation and recreation.

  Lin Yutang

  Art, Creation, Art Is

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• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

  Confucius

  Art, Kindness, Mind

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• The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, Stronger

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• He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

  John Locke

  Use, Leisure

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.236

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• Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Kindness, People, Democracy

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• The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

  Billy Graham

  Home, School, Parenting

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• The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

  Jack Canfield

  Successful, People, Balance

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  Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

  Aziz Ansari

  Parks And Recreation, Balls, Littles

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fitness, Health, Order

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.752, Simon and Schuster

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• Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pyramids, Together, More Time

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• Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

  Joseph Hall

  Mind, Dull, Scythes

  Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Latin theology with translations”, p.174

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• Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

  Brigham Young

  Law, Pyramids, Study

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.132

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• Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

  Georges Wolinski

  Teamwork, Half, Explaining

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Animal

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• Health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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• Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Stress, Impact, Sight

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• A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Meaningful, Art, Play

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• I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation.

  Louis C. K.

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "Louis C.K. - Shameless". DVD live concert by Louis C. K., June 26, 2007.

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