Recreation Quotes - Page 9

• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

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• The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

  Havelock Ellis

  Lying, Work, Land

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• My work is a game, a very serious game.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Work, Games

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• Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Funny, Good Morning

  "Hitting Your Peak: Financial Strength" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Memories

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• Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

  Mario Puzo

  Mother, Children, Father

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• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports

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• The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Men, Average

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.86, Knopf

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• To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Greatest Love, Amusement

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.266

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• Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

  E. V. Knox

  Golf, Numbers, Shapes

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• If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

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• Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

  Garth Brooks

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

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• You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Happiness, Men, Self

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• If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

  Doug Larson

  Fun, Work, Weekend

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• Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Men, Fishing

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• An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation

  Tim Benton

  Nature, Water, Landscape

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• As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

  Philip Stubbs

  Sports, Football, Fighting

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• Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.

  Maria von Trapp

  Memories, Hands, Games

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• With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use.

  Wendell Berry

  Money, Home, School

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• All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Blessed, Writing, Creativity

  "Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, 1980.

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• I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

  Susanna Wesley

  Religious, One Day, Too Much

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• I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too.

  Bill Bowerman

  Sports, Running, Thinking

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• Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Friends, Giving Up

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• At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Art, Knowledge

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at table and recreation (no hurry here either). But isn't it strange how those same Christians find themselves in such a rush and want to hurry the priest, in their anxiety to shorten the time devoted to the most holy sacrifice of the altar?

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Sacrifice, Anxiety

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