Art is both creation and recreation.
I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.
Work. . . has always been my favorite form of recreation.
Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation. . . all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.
The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another. . . noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.