Leisure Time Quotes

“Leisure, the problem with the modern condition was the dearth of leisure. And finally, it took a force of nature to interrupt our routines. We just wanted to hit the reset button. We just wanted to feel flush with time to do things of no quantifiable value, our hopeful side pursuits like writing or drawing or something, something other than what we did for money.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“Our leisure time is occupied increasingly by automatized activities in which we take no part: listening to piped-in words and viewing television screens (no portable smartphones, laptops back when Dr. Meerloo wrote his book). We hurry along with cars and go to bed with a sleeping pill. This pattern of living in turn may open the way for renewed sneak attacks on our mind. Our boredom may welcome any seductive suggestion.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“job (noun): the work that we do to secure the means of survival and – in some cases – a spring of satisfaction and delight; more often, a useful tool that we have in our possession in order to distract ourselves from potential alarming thoughts and to release us from the boredom of inactivity. Furthermore, a source that finances our leisure time so that this can effectively continue the important task of distraction.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“The idle life I lead

Is like a pleasant sleep,

Wherein I rest and heed

The dreams that by me sweep.”
― Robert Bridges

“Rest is the best cure for busy man and work is the best cure for lazy man.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If you’re about to request a search party for your free time, try issuing a warrant for mindless activities that do not contribute to your goals as a student.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life

“When you’re too busy even to write the eulogy for your free time, you might find resuscitating your schedule is as easy as multitasking more effectively or trying a new study technique.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life

“Man is busy in making his life dull while nature is waiting for his leisure to provide him enjoyment.”
― Shakil Kamboh

“Artificial intelligence is here to stay. It will evolve because humans are lazy and always looking for the easier way to do things. Will it help become more efficient? Yes! Will it give us more "leisure time". I doubt it. Human beings are creatures of habits.”
― June Stoyer

“I we open up sport to women, it sends a message that wanting leisure time is not being selfish or unreasonable.”
― Helen Lewis

“Children need a great deal of free play to thrive. It’s an imperative that’s evident across all mammal species. The small scale challenged and setbacks that happen during play are like an inoculation that prepares children to face much larger challenges later.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“Bali feels completely different when you can explore on your own terms”
― Bali Touristic

“[Emma, a fanfiction writer] says she feels like she has more in common, now, with that twelve-year-old girl [that she was] than with the professor she has seemed to become. "It is just sheerly for fun," Emma says of fandom. "It is grace freely given. It is joy shared without consideration of compensation or payback." To her, it's the opposite of work; it's play. [...] Fandom is about reclaiming that play space for "productive selfishness," she says, and "the assignment of your time according to whatever the fuck you feel like, instead of what would be most efficient, or most advantageous to others. It's as important to me as eating healthy or getting exercise.”
― Tabitha Carvan, This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It