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Leisure Quotes

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable Picture Quote #1

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship Picture Quote #1

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility Picture Quote #1

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means Picture Quote #1

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the truth, here and now! Picture Quote #1

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Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure [has become] entertainment Picture Quote #1

Why are the gentlemen more open than the people? Because they have money and hence leisure and can appreciate the beautiful and useless. And because they despise necessity Picture Quote #1

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour Picture Quote #1

People in Chechnya - just as throughout Russia - must have the possibility to live normally, to have rest and leisure and medical treatment and to raise and educate their children Picture Quote #1

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure Picture Quote #1

Have you so much leisure from your own business that you can take care of other people’s that does not at all belong to you? Picture Quote #1

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I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible Picture Quote #1

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains Picture Quote #1

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! Picture Quote #1

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal Picture Quote #1

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure Picture Quote #1

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are Picture Quote #1

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To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal Picture Quote #1

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes Picture Quote #1

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods Picture Quote #1

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life Picture Quote #1

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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright Picture Quote #1

... the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it Picture Quote #1

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work Picture Quote #1

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them Picture Quote #1

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It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable (Leisure Quotes) Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship (Leisure Quotes) A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility (Leisure Quotes) If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means (Leisure Quotes) If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love (Leisure Quotes) Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the truth, here and now! (Leisure Quotes) Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure [has become] entertainment (Leisure Quotes) Why are the gentlemen more open than the people? Because they have money and hence leisure and can appreciate the beautiful and useless. And because they despise necessity (Leisure Quotes) Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour (Leisure Quotes) People in Chechnya - just as throughout Russia - must have the possibility to live normally, to have rest and leisure and medical treatment and to raise and educate their children (Leisure Quotes) I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure (Leisure Quotes) Have you so much leisure from your own business that you can take care of other people’s that does not at all belong to you? (Leisure Quotes) I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible (Leisure Quotes) For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains (Leisure Quotes) Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! (Leisure Quotes) Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal (Leisure Quotes) If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure (Leisure Quotes) What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are (Leisure Quotes) To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal (Leisure Quotes) In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes (Leisure Quotes) The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods (Leisure Quotes) Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred (Leisure Quotes) 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 (Leisure Quotes) People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life (Leisure Quotes) What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright (Leisure Quotes) ... the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it (Leisure Quotes) It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy (Leisure Quotes) 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 (Leisure Quotes) The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work (Leisure Quotes) Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them (Leisure Quotes)

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