I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure… — Aristotle 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
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
It is important to value the individual, to have good health, a loving family and good relationships, to have community ties, leisure… — Helen Lynch Copy Share Image
Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we're seeing an incredible… — Gary Shapiro Copy Share Image
What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He carried a pipe in his left hand, and as he examined Will at his leisure, he exhaled sending a cloud of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Acting is wonderful, but it's not pulling in the type of money that I want. It's not bringing in the type of… — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick Copy Share Image
Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew… — Shana Alexander 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
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing that you… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more,… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We do more ready-to-wear and ath-leisure, things you would wear everyday. I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor,… — Horace Copy Share Image