Quotes About Leisure

I love to be outdoors, so I like to hike, bike and go to the beach.

Depending on the season, you'll find me outdoors doing an activity.

I'm a laid-back guy. I like being outdoors. I enjoy hanging out.

You don't need to be an athlete to enjoy the outdoors.

Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

When I'm not dancing, I usually just like to keep it comfy. Even if I'm just going to dinner, I'll wear jeans or something, but if I'm not dancing, I usually just have a comfy outfit on.

Being outside on the grass is the easy, enjoyable part of being a footballer.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

Rest is overrated.

In the past, I've told people to get me DVDs: like, the box sets of entire series. When you're overseas and there isn't much else to do, they can be great.

The music stuff is just a hobby.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival--whether of labour or of leisure--will no longer be a basis for society.

Aristotle believed democracy could exist only because of slavery, which gave citizens the leisure for higher pursuits. (Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men like Washington and Jefferson the free time to better themselves and to participate in representative government.)

We live in an age of high performance, in which everyone is supposed to be constantly maximizing their potential, living their "best life." Social media has made everything from marriage proposals to this morning's breakfast into exquisitely choreographed, unsubtly competitive rituals. The ethos of work—"the long arm of the job," as one scholar put it—pervades our leisure, to the extent that we even have any.

Fishin' for a good time starts with throwin' in your line.

Heavy lifting is good for the soul but bad for the back, and tends to interfere with lolling about.

How nice to be on your own for a bit and do what you like.

Ifall det är någon som inte vet vad pensionerad betyder så är det att man får göra precis vad man har lust till i frid och ro när man har blivit tillräckligt gammal. Åtminstone hade hemulens släktingar förklarat det så.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.