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Tag Name "Leisure" (412)

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You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.
Jennifer James
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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!
Plutarch
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Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.
Christopher McDougall
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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
E. F. Schumacher
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Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.
Theodor Adorno
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Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.
Aristotle
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It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
David Riesman
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I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.
Walter Huston
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Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
George Zimmerman
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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!
Jerry Brown
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When we don't get that escape from our work selves, I think we feel its absence on a deep, almost primal level. Leisure is uncommodified, unoccupied time where we get to be truly free, so feeling bad about missing the weekend isn't just, Damn, I didn't make it to the mall! It's a profound loss.
Katrina Onstad
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I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.
Winston Churchill
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I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
Ian Bogost
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.
Baltasar Gracian
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How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.
John Keats
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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
Bertrand Russell
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
Steve Earle
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Henry David Thoreau
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I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
Johnny Depp
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Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
Hillel the Elder
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We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival.
Lewis Thomas
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I came to the flowers I slept beneath them this was my leisure.
Yosa Buson
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To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
George Soros
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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
William Shakespeare
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