Quotes About Leisure

I picked it up just for relaxation. I can sit down and get into the game and escape that it's a big game tomorrow, escape that we need a win, or whatever. My wife knows, after a game I get home at 12:30, I'm playing chess till 3 o'clock in the morning.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

We do jigsaw puzzles. Here's a pro tip: Listen to an audiobook while doing it.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

How can you get tired of playing golf?

To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.

I play a lot of PlayStation, to be honest. I play with Marcelo Melo, and he can't beat me. That makes me very happy. That's my evening routines.

To be honest, I'm not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.

I don't really watch that much TV, to be honest.

To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.

There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?

I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!

One thing about the entertainment industry - it's not something that people need to survive.

On Saturday, I don't want to be woken up until at least nine: I like a bit of a lie-in, a cup of tea, toast and marmalade, and the newspaper.

Sundays are great for a lie in, a read of the papers, a potter around at home and then brunch, which is normally cheese on toast!

I'm tanned from head to toe, and it looks like I've been in The Bahamas.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.