Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

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.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.