Quotes About Leisure

The Greek poleis in their best days had no great surplus of goods: what they had was a surplus of time, that is, leisure, free and untrammeled, not commited-as in America today-to excessive materialistic consumption, but available for conversation, sexual passion, intellectual reflection, and esthetic delight.

My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

I used to always be in Atlanta, chilling. I didn't really have as much to do. So I would gamble as a hobby. Now I'd rather go into the studio and try to make me a hit.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

The computer is really a useful gadget for consuming time.

I like how calm and chill it is in Utah. It's a good thing and it's a bad thing. The bad part is, maybe after a big game you want to go out and hang out or whatever, and there's really not too many spots like that in Utah.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.

I always try to have a vacation.

I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.

Consumers may put off buying a car, but they don't put off buying a vacation.

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.