Quotes About Leisure

For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.

It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the 'dark ages'!

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

But because kids today have so little free time, and because they're always surrounded by media, they don't explore what's off the beaten path. They want their fun to be quick and easy. The art of being bored is lost." . . . There's no question that Klauber's findings are

It must grace the festivity of the wedding; it must enliven the gloom of the funeral. It must cheer the intercourse of friends and enlighten the fatigue of labor. Success deserves a treat and disappointment needs it. The busy drink because they are busy; the idle because they have nothing else to do. The farmer must drink because his work is hard; the mechanic because his employment is sedentary and dull. It is warm, men drink to be cool; it is cool, they drink to be warm.27

I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world . . . plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

When the workers, whose only pleasure was sleeping, crawled into their beds, they slumbered like cattle.

There is no leisure in a life of indolence. That should be left to the birds and beasts. There is seclusion even in a crowd, Tranquillity in the streets of a town. The mountain clouds are free from worldly attachments, They come and go of themselves. How can the place to bury one's bones Be limited to the green mountains?

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

many injurious habits result from our efforts to fill empty time.

Our culture has an idea of competition in the pursuit of excellence that can make anyone not striving for the top feel like a worthless, non-productive bystander. This applies not only to one's career but even to one's leisure.

We cannot "play" until all the details of our work are done. The details are like little needles of arousal poking us. But that can make it difficult to relax and have some fun.

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.