Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. — George Eastman Copy Share Image
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He still works in the local leisure centre and he's the union rep and a shop steward. Dad is very grounded. He's… — Carl Frampton Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired.… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure;… — L.P. Jacks Copy Share Image
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. — Lauren Ambrose Copy Share Image
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder. — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time. — Cher Wang Copy Share Image
I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image