Quotes About Leisure

El domingo se levantaba más temprano aún para estar más tiempo sin hacer nada. El peor momento de su vida era el fin de la tarde de ese día: caía en una meditación inquieta, el vacío del domingo estéril.

Las tardes de Altos de la Cascada se pueblan de vecinos paseando perros en ropa de entrenamiento, con zapatillas con colchón de aire para running o línea sport Brand. O hasta en rollers si están bien entrenados…, los perros.

Such clubs and bars offered the perfect "third place," neither home nor work, where I could go to unwind and socialize. I wasn't ready to give that up.

A good read is one of the amazing pleasures offered to us by civilization.

There is nothing wrong about laziness. Take time to relax. Laziness is only despising if it becomes a habit.

See John Haworth, Work, Leisure and Wellbeing, Routledge, London, 1997, pp. 24–5.

It would be a desirable and enviable existence just to earn a decent wage at a worthwhile job and spend all one's leisure hours improving one's aesthetic appreciation. There is so much to appreciate, and it is all available for peanuts. One can plausibly aspire to seeing, hearing and reading everything that matters.

All you really need in life is a good quality cigar, a place sit and a lighter that that works "

One thing is sure. Entertainment is important. Without it, the entire human race would go mad within a matter of hours.

All the great sages of history have made the same mistake. They think people want work, tasks, direction. What people really want is entertainment

There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse

This was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty.

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

Freie« Zeit, keine »Freizeit«. Letztere gedeiht in der fortgeschrittenen Industriegesellschaft, aber ist in dem Maße unfrei, wie sie durch Geschäft und Politik verwaltet wird

The only danger, perhaps, is that if the predicted day arrives when each of us has at home a color television set with a screen the size of a wall, carrying sports events originated on all continents, we may never get outdoors again.

It's not normal, like chasing a little white ball and whacking it into eighteen different holes.

Washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other appliances came to the aid of three quarters of American housewives. Motion pictures and the wireless brought new enjoyment to millions during their hours of leisure.

Walking around Wall Street during the weekend, one gets the impression that the world's affairs have been settled once and for all, that the age of work is finally over and that humanity has moved on to its next stage.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are prepared to use it; when they do not require it they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy, or be struck with paralysis.

Gambling is not a vice, if you can afford to do it.

For a month he is at home: he reads.

Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

He gave her a smile that wasn't really a smile at all. "Eh, it wouldn't be so bad. I wouldn't have to study for the SATs or get a summer job or figure out my major. I can drink Elderflower wine all day, dance all through the night, and sleep on a bower of roses." Hazel made a face. "I'm pretty sure there are some colleges where you can do that. I bet there are some colleges where you can major in that.