Quotes About Leisure

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. —Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender

He was dressed in a plaid bathrobe and bunny slippers

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.

Anyone acquainted with Helen's characteristics would know that she always manufactured leisure for an unfamiliar job, even if she had to neglect some legitimate duty. It was the infusion of novelty into her dull routine which helped to keep undimmed her passionate zest for life.

All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.

This lack of leisure and of intimacy is not a peripheral matter—nothing Socrates thinks can be expeditiously conveyed by public deliverance; it must always be slowly engendered in leisurely direct conversation with its accompanying inner dialogue (Theaetetus 172 d). Socrates' positive wisdom stated concisely in public would appear simply bizarre.

The culture of capitalism is self-contradictory, demanding that people be hard workers by day and hedonists by night.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow

My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.

Golf was never a religion to me.

My followers consistently engage with my content and rely on my recommendations for making decisions about where they travel or how they spend their leisure time. There's no space for trolls.

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

I long for quiet places and Bhushan is crazy about shopping. He's at the mall even before it opens! Shopping and cars are his two biggest passions, so we invariably end up shopping and renting a car when we are abroad.

I'm not good at vacationing. I've repeatedly failed at palapas and mai-tais.

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

I used to hunt and fish.

I'm not an outdoorsman. I'd rather go see a movie. I don't want to hunt anything.

People ask me what I do, and I tell them, 'I'm a fisherman and a hunter.' They look at me like I'm lazy or crazy.