I’d rather spend my leisure
I’d rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
– Jared Diamond
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- Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There’s a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. – Ben Shapiro
- I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work… I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time. – Fred Armisen
- We should abolish ‘work.’ By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time. – Theodore Zeldin
- Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I’m on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island. – Renzo Piano
- Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. – Pope Francis
- Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. – Mortimer Adler
- I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. – Sean Bean
- Time is your most valuable asset. Money you can spend, lose, and get back. Once time is spent, you can never get it back. Spend your time wisely today. – Dewayne Owens
- If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. – Simeon Strunsky
- If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. – Simeon Strunsky