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#leisure

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #leisure




Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it.


Peter Adejimi


#leisure #marketing #business

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.


Lord Byron


#haste #leisure #love #men

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.


Dean Inge


#dyed #leisure #soul #thoughts

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.


Anthony Trollope


#contentment #evening #i #i can #i do

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.


Thorstein Veblen


#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drifting like spent petals onto the dark table we all once gathered around to talk and talk, letting time get the better of us. _Just taking our time_, as we say. That is, letting time take us. "Can you say," I once inquired of a sixty-year old cloistered nun who had lived (vibrantly, it seemed) from teh age of nineteen in her monastery cell, "what the core of contemplative life is?" "Leisure," she said, without hesitation, her china blue eyes cheerfully steady on me. I suppose I expected her to say, "Prayer." Or maybe "The search for God." Or "Inner peace." Inner peace would have been good. One of the big-ticket items of spirituality. She saw I didn't see. "It takes time to do this," she said finally. Her "this" being the kind of work that requires abdication from time's industrial purpose (doing things, getting things). By choosing leisure she had bid farewell to the fevered enterprise of getting-and-spending whereby, as the poet said, we lay waste our powers.


Patricia Hampl


#meditation #religious-life #spirituality #age

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.


Ludwig von Mises


#economics #leisure #luxury #wealth #life

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#consider #contrive #execute #furnishes #gives

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.


Christo


#manhattan #only #park #people #place

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.


Dag Hammarskjold


#leisure #more






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