Top 1200 Leisure Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

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

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

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

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 time is just one of the many benefits Americans are enjoying in the Trump economy.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.

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.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.

Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

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

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.

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites of whatever type. There are days when I do not have time to switch my desktop computer on, and computer access is by mobile devices on the run between competing engagements.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.

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

I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

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 leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

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 meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that they make sublime, He feels and sees that Nature knows Nothing of time in what she does, But has a leisure infinite Wherein to do her work aright.

My followers consistently engage with my content and rely on my recommendations for making decisions about where they travel or how they spend their leisure time. There's no space for trolls.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

I don't see any distinction between work and pleasure so I do spend a lot of what other people might consider my leisure time doing history things.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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.

Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce crime as having extra police on the streets, and increasing the population of concert halls may actually help decrease the population of prisons.

Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is the reality for many white-collar workers, and there's a kind of perverse currency to that, competitive busy-ness. At the other end of the income scale, there's a swath of lower-wage workers who are underemployed or unemployed, with too much unwanted leisure, and zero status for that. For shift workers, devices mean they're accessible in ways they weren't before, susceptible to that call from the boss to log more hours.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

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

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.