Quotes About Leisure

I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

Leisure, not work, should be our primary goal.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

I'm a very anti-vacation person. Because I'm always getting on planes for work, to me, a vacation is when I don't have to get on a plane.

Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.