#leisure

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does... ↗

— Tom Petty

#leisure #stupidity #work #youth #money

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. ↗

— Scipio Africanus

#i #leisure #less #never #than

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#handmaiden #leisure

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it. ↗

— Peter Adejimi

#leisure #marketing #business

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#leisure #imagination

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#hours #leisure #leisure time #night #six

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#comes #furnish #helps #leisure #listen

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#basically #books #britain #classes #come

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. ↗

— Clive Bell

#class #crowd #leisure #mistake #wage-earners