Quotes About Leisure

I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.

Descansado, he tells me. What does that mean? Descansado, Rip says. It means 'take it easy,' he whispers, clutching the child next to him. Yeah? It means relax.

All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse.

Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel.

There are 168 hours in a week. The average person works 8 hours per day (40 hours a week); sleeps 8 hours per day (56 hours a week); and dresses, eats, and travels to work 4 hours per day (28 hours a week). These tasks use up 124 hours, leaving 44 hours a week as spare time.

maintain balance with the three Rs: relaxation, recreation, and relationships. May

For a moment the highlander lay quietly and studied the room in silent leisure, allowing the sleep to disperse and his rested mind to awaken fully.

Culture was now largely a matter of how to keep people harmlessly distracted when they were not working.

Our ability to travel is a privilege. But it is also a choice. Money is time. Where do we spend out time? Wilderness is not my leisure or my recreation. It is my sanity.

As a free person I can always come and go, Not caught in ideas of is and is not. Not caught in ideas of being and non-being Let your steps be leisurely.

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

I'm an elite, recreational juggler.

I have very non-eccentric hobbies. I like to read, to have dinner with friends, and junk out on TV like everybody else.

I wasn't shuffling from one sport to the next that much. I had downtime to just be a high school student.

I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put the book down to take a rest. You can't just be lighting firecrackers all the time.

I'm not going to deny that I enjoy a good four or five hour karaoke session. But who doesn't?

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

I never have such luxury of leisure time. But whenever I get some time, I catch up on watching movies, keep going to theatre to watch plays, gigs of my actor friends.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.