George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

You can't work all your life.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

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

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water

I'm a big fan of not working.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Have a day off, which is very rare in our line of work, but that's something we like to do. Like I said, it's a nice way to take your mind off the game and just go out and relax and have fun.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

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.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.