Edie Sedgwick Quotes

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.

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

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.

I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

I have no time for a vacation.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

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

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every waking hour beside a telephone waiting for it to ring.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is 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.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

I'm actually really lazy. I tell myself, "Okay, you work six months out of the year and you have to get up at 4 a.m. ..." I'll relish the downtime by chilling on the couch and watching my favorite TV shows.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...