Top 1200 Leisure Activities Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

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.

I'm involved with Satanists and activities.

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us away from the many events, activities, and people that make up our lives. . . . He asks us to shift the point of gravity, to relocate the center of our attention, to change our priorities. Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

We go after unlawful activities.

He still works in the local leisure centre and he's the union rep and a shop steward. Dad is very grounded. He's not bumptious or brash.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

I am finally a lady of leisure, and it suits me fine. For the first time in almost 10 decades, I don't have an agenda or a structure to my days.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

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 a professional gentleman of leisure.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

One of my favourite activities is eating.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers.