'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Night buses serve not only the leisure economy- pubs, bars, clubs, theatres and concerts- but also hundreds of thousands of night workers. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
God is patient with the process! Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't see any distinction between work and pleasure so I do spend a lot of what other people might consider my… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry. — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
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