Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
I'm somebody from a little tiny town, who had boxed in leisure centres, and my last fight was in Madison Square Garden… — Joe Calzaghe Copy Share Image
Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. — Plato Copy Share Image
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher 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
I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
