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almonstro-blog · 7 years ago

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From A’s and B Flats to Ones and Zeros: Injecting Technology into Today’s Music

Most millennials will never know the glory of unwrapping that CD that they have waited in line all night to buy on release day, nor will they feel the crushing defeat when the cassette player in the station wagon finally eats their favorite mix tape. Nowadays, we can seamlessly move our favorite songs from the office to the car or from our jog to the patio with the swipe of a finger. Musicians who once needed a pile of money and experienced engineers to record an album can now record everything on a laptop in mom’s basement. This is the digital revolution, and technology seems to be moving at an exponential rate. With recent advancements in technology along with a little help from a few key innovations, the past twenty years has changed the way we write, record, and listen to music today.

Looking back to October of 2001, a struggling company by the name of Apple decided to swing for the fences. Co-Founder and then CEO Steve Jobs announced a small personal music device called an iPod, which he believed could compete with personal CD players as a mobile device used to store and play music. The key difference with this player is that it could take digitally compressed music files and store many more songs on the hard drive, saving consumers the hassle of carrying all their CD’s around with them. This technology would allow the freedom to bring an entire music library on a device smaller than a pack of cigarettes. Nobody at the time could imagine the implications that this would bring to the future of the entire tech industry.

Fast forward to 2007, the year of the iPhone, which laid the foundation for the smart phone industry. Data could be stored and moved quickly, thus creating a transition from personal computers to handheld devices as our primary source of absorbing and dispersing data around the world. It became much easier to share music peer to peer through the internet, and album sales in the records were falling fast. Even with the introduction of iTunes, the average consumer would only purchase their favorite songs by an artist rather than entire albums. This became a primary factor in the way the consumer, and in turn, the music industry evolved to survive these changing times.

Many musicians could no longer pay the high costs that came along with recording an album. On the low end, recording costs for a major release could total well over $100,000. With the influx of digital technology came the ability to write and record these albums at a much lower cost. With the improved processing power of computers, a home studio could be built for around $500 and can fit within right on the desk where the computer sits. This gives any musician the ability to record on a budget, as well as the flexibility to record intermittently when it is convenient or when inspiration strikes. Every idea can be recorded to a computer the moment that sweet riff hits the stings; which can then be tweaked with drum sounds, horns, or even a full orchestra at the tips of your fingers. The internet also gave the ability to share recordings or portions of recordings with friends or strangers across the world who could add their own spice to the tune in real time. With the new additions of Apple’s Garage Band and other mobile recording applications, one could even jot down an idea wherever inspiration may arise using their smart phone. Any musician can tell you they’ve thought of an amazing idea for a song in the car that has completely evaporated into the ethers of the universe by the time they stepped into the house to grab an instrument.

This wasn’t all gravy for the starving artist however. As the well was beginning to dry up from the struggling labels, even popular artists were finding it difficult to fund their projects with little cash from album sales and downloads making it back to their pockets. Bands found that the only tangible paycheck for their profession had come through merchandising, which was primarily sold at their concerts. More and more acts would have to tour constantly to keep the lights on, many spending as much as three-hundred days a year on the road. Luckily, due to the nature of a musician, the became very creative with different marketing strategies beyond selling t-shirts to cashing in on the experience itself, by selling original art or VIP experiences before shows to supplement their income and get them to the next city. This was not a sustainable lifestyle however for musicians who have families and other responsibilities at home. The use of technology through the introduction of social media, was a cornerstone for artists attempting to make a living creating the soundtrack to our lives.

The immediate spark of social media gave artists a medium where they could speak directly to their fans, unadulterated and unfiltered. There was no boss to tell them what they could or could not say. From a fan’s perspective, they could follow not only the band, but the intimate details of their lives. For the first time ever, fans didn’t just know the band member’s names, but what they did on the weekends, when their kids took their first steps, and why they can’t stay out of target for more than 5 days in a row. There was a connection with these artists now, and fans instantly felt tied to the band in a way that had not been experienced before. The psychology behind these connections is very powerful, and the importance at the time was grossly understated.

Crowdsourcing, which is a way of collecting money from large groups of individuals, became an integral part of funding albums for independent artists. Not very many people would buy an album from a stranger before a note was ever recorded. However, these personal connections (albeit these were still one-way connections) gave fans the sense that they were part of the process, which made donating to these projects an investment. That’s exactly what was happening, and more and more established artists could start to sever ties with the record lables and go at it alone, reaping the benefits of retaining the profit for themselves as well.

Record labels had thrived for decades on the premise that artists would need promotion as well as financial backing to succeed in the industry. As time went on and technology advanced, artists became more independent, finding creative ways to succeed in an industry that was shifting as quickly as albums were written. With the changing environment, record labels who had been suffering financial losses every year weren’t able to sign major talent and in turn many had to close their doors. The biggest conundrum here was that consumers were listening to as much, if not more music on their phones and computers so there was still money to be had. This is when new applications such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora stepped in to capitalize on these markets. What these companies did was to create a subscription based fee structure whereas for a monthly charge of around $10, a listener would be able to stream radio and albums with some of these services, as well giving the ability to download the songs they liked. It quickly became apparent that services like these became beneficial for both the consumer and the record labels.

A consumer would have to pay approximately $10 to purchase an album or $.99 per song on iTunes and other online retail platforms. By paying a subscription fee, one could access a library of millions of songs through online streaming or download as many as their computer or smartphone will allow. This became advantageous for the listener who would like to grab an album they may not be immediately in love with, or allow them to try new bands or new styles of music that they wouldn’t have been willing to invest in prior. These services also utilize a vast amount of data the streaming services collect based on what consumers are listening to, while creating algorithms which make it easy to recommend new artists to accurately accommodate to taste. With the ease and flexibility of these services, popularity has increased to 90 million paid subscribers in 2016, and the record companies are finally cashing in.

These streaming services initially looked like competition for the record labels, capitalizing on the income that was being lost from physical and digital sales. As it turns out, 2016 has treated major record labels to the largest profits in the past decade thanks to these services. Record labels may only receive around a half cent per listen, but with Spotify reporting a billion streams per day, revenue can quickly add up. This, in conjunction with the reduced costs of recording and advertising, has turned a corner for record companies’ ability to profit and again find and fund new talent.

Every generation experiences a revolution by way of technological innovation that changes the way we exist. With the creation and expansion of digital technology, we will be lucky enough to experience it first hand, as well as share it with friends, family, and strangers on the same medium that was created for us. Music has been profoundly affected by technology in the way we write, record, and listen; however music is still the basis of how we communicate universally, an idea as primal as hunting and gathering. So long may be the days of putting the needle to wax (albeit some of still partake for sport), but the culture of music is cyclical and as Les Guêpes said, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” With any major shift in culture, many will struggle to adapt, but at the end of the day our artists are making money again, the record companies are making money again, and we will gladly give it to them for a little inspiration.

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freshkookies97 · 7 years ago

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White Lilies

Pairing: Taehyung x Reader

Rating: NC-17

Genre: Angst / Romance

Warnings: Hospitalization, mention of minor character death, mention of major character attempted suicide

Word Count: 2.6k

Prompt: BTS Writers’ July Writing Prompt - It’s a hot summer night. Person A and B are neighbors, and both have their windows open. Person A is reading when they hear Person B singing beautifully. What happens next is up to you.

Disclaimer: There is not a major character death.

Song choice: Stigma by BTS

Song © to BTS.

Gif © to the owner.

I hope you enjoy it. (:

The sweet scent of sakura blossoms floated into the room through the breeze fluttering the curtains. Cicadas and grasshoppers sang in the distance, in search of their mate beneath the radiant starlight. Unread books piled in the corners of the room beside your desk cluttered with various sketches and snippets of fictional writing. Your laptop sat amidst the chaos emitting soft, soothing music from its speakers and filling the silence. Your eyes skimmed across the pages of the book you were currently reading, sweat gathering atop your brow as the sweltering heat of summer permeated the room. The duvet beneath you crinkled around the weight of your upright form, clinging to the exposed skin of your thighs and calves. Your tank top and shorts did little in your pursuit of becoming at least a tiny bit comfortable.

At least the paper thin walls of the Japanese summer vacation home allowed the heat to dissipate through the material, decreasing the temperature of the house by a few degrees. Even still, summers were always the worst. Despite this, your family continued to vacation to Japan each scorching season. They always claimed that a change of scenery was required for the brain to regain clarity. Of course, they were right.

However, a problem arose when it became this hot.

Falling asleep in this incessant heat was nearly impossible.

Even reading wasn’t helping.

Reading has always been the most beneficial tool in attempting to fall asleep ever since you were little. Of course, reading in the daylight wouldn’t cause the same reaction, but either reading or being read to at night has always been the most relaxing. Tonight, however, had become the first night that your usual method had failed. With a huff, you snapped the book shut and allowed it to fall onto the bed with a thump. Your eyes scoured the room for another tactic when you suddenly heard a low, deep voice crooning a familiar melody. You crawled across the bed, closer to the window, closer to the source of that beautiful voice. Placing your hands on the windowsill, you leaned over the edge of your bed, your ears focused on his voice.

“Deeper, deeper, the wound just gets deeper Like pieces of glass that We can’t turn back Deeper, my chest hurts everyday The feeble you, who received Punishment for my crime”

That song, those lyrics.

It’s Taehyung!

He wasn’t supposed to arrive until tomorrow.

You’re glad he’s here, but that song…

Where have you heard it?

The lyrics resounded in the caverns of your brain until finally, a memory surfaced, the identity of that song finally being revealed. You fell against the balls of your feet as the recollection consumed all thought, erased the reality of being in the bedroom of your favorite summer home.

It was late summer, early fall. The air began to chill and the leaves started to blend into various shades of red and yellow. Eventually, they would be found beneath someone’s shoe, the snap of their veins echoing in the biting, crisp breeze. Citizens were rarely spotted in the streets. Students’ school uniforms were modified to accommodate the chill. Shops lost business, save for the students that would dart into their stores, seeking shelter, warmth, and always, food. The only people roaming the streets would be those headed to work, school, the hospital, or to the cemetery to mourn the loss of their loved ones. It was there, at the hospital, where Taehyung could be found every day after school. It was one of the few places he would frequent. For him, it was always school, hospital, home, and repeat.

Of course, it wasn’t always this way.

No, not until his grandmother fell ill.

Taehyung became distant, only concerned with buying the prettiest flowers at the nearest florist for his most beloved family member. It was always white lilies. They were her favorite. They were always beside her bed while Taehyung clutched her frail hand, silently praying for her health to replenish. Even in sickness, her humor remained intact. Her jokes would spread a smile on his face, and sometimes, he would even laugh. However, it was always a façade. He was always smiling through the pain for her. Everything was for her.

The forced smiles would continue, until one day, while she was asleep, he was visited by her primary doctor. She had a month remaining to live. That was the day he broke. That was the day the world became grey for him. That was the day he would lose awareness of the things happening around him, even your presence beside him. When you would attempt to speak to him, emotion would be vacant from his eyes. His focus and attention were never on you.

It was always that one spot in the floor that disrupted the pattern in the tile. It was the corner of the room, where his grandmother’s dying lilies sat. It was the red bows adorning your shoes, the diamonds that would decorate them the next day. There were days, however, that he would acknowledge your existence. It wasn’t words of gratitude, though.

No, he lashed out at you. He would scream and holler, demanding to know why you were still with him, why you were visiting his grandmother at all. He wouldn’t wait for your answer. He’d continue, shouting things like “She isn’t even your family,” “You don’t belong here,” and “Just leave me the hell alone!” These outbursts would always end in tears. He’d slowly curl himself into a ball while you consoled him, enveloped him in your embrace until his tears dried. Your own tears would dot his denim jacket, saddened at the sight of your best friend, your first love, in complete and utter agony.

The torment wouldn’t end, though.

Because it wasn’t long until she suddenly passed in her sleep, two weeks later.

That day, he attempted suicide.

On the roof of the hospital, his toes surpassing the edge of the platform as tears freely streamed across his face. You pleaded and pleaded, tears brimming in your eyes, but you bit your cheek. You didn’t want your emotions to affect his decision. It had taken a while before you had finally convinced him to live, for the remainder of his family. His younger sister and brother. It had felt as though a weight had been lifted from your shoulders when he accepted your embrace. That night seemed endless as the two of you talked for hours and hours, about anything and everything. It was a relief to speak with your true best friend for the first time in months. Of course, there was a voice inside your head that told you that it wouldn’t last for long, and it was right, but you were prepared.

A year passed by agonizingly slow, but both of you survived it.

He became himself again. He smiled and laughed, and he made jokes. He even did your hair and makeup for a bet that one of his friends had made. He graduated high school and applied for college. He was actually looking forward to the future he had ahead of him. It was a beautiful experience, watching him fight through the pain and transform into the man he is today. He’s learned how to handle life’s mishaps and that is a lesson that everyone should learn. You’re proud of him, and you’re sure his grandmother is, too.

It was a couple of months after her death that “Stigma” was written.

It was 2 o’clock in the morning. You were hunched over your desk, furiously typing your psychology essay that was due in 6 hours. Your room was actually tidy for once, it always was when you were studying or doing homework. It was the only way you could actually get things done. Your eyes burned from the glare of your laptop in the dimly lit room, your back had started to ache from the arch of your spine. Your fingers and hands began to throb from the speed and duration of your typing. Classical music was quietly reverberating off the walls of your room from your laptop’s speakers, but your ears tuned it out. In fact, you were so engrossed in your essay that at first, you couldn’t even hear the phone ringing.

It took 2 more additional calls until you snapped your attention away to whisk your phone up to your ear, not bothering to check the ID. “Hello?” you impatiently greeted, splitting some of your focus to listen to the caller’s voice. Speaking of their voice, this one was oddly familiar. It was deep, manly, and sent a wave of electricity along your spine. Your scrunched features relaxed when you identified the husky, masculine voice. “Taehyung…” you accidentally whispered under your breath, in an almost seductive tone.

He cleared his throat. “I-um wrote a new song!”

“Really?”

Before you could realize what was happening, his voice changed octaves and he began his song, Stigma. As you attentively listened, tears brimmed in your eyes at the realization of who the song was dedicated to. You bit your cheek to prevent the tears from spilling as your ears focused on his soothing voice. When the last verse was sung, he questioned if you liked it and you exclaimed that you did. It’s not like you were lying. No, you did like it. In fact, you loved it. It was the subject of the song that had you sniffling.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” he inquired, concern lacing his voice.

You gave him a weak excuse that night, but he didn’t pressure you for an answer. You bade him farewell, ended the call, and with a sigh, resumed the construction of your essay. Unfortunately, you didn’t finish until 4 o’clock in the morning that day, so you only got 2 hours of sleep, but at least you got it done. The next few months would pass by uneventfully. Other than the flirting you had received from Taehyung every week or so, life was otherwise silent. When college began, your availability diminished and less time was spent with the only man, and love, in your life. You missed him terribly. When you had finished your last class in the spring, you were more than excited for summer break. Finally, you’d be able to see Taehyung again. Finally, you’d have the chance to confess your feelings for him.

You hadn’t even realized you were crying until you felt the tears dot your hands folded in your lap. You chuckled at the unexpected onslaught of tears, swiping them away when you started at the sudden ringing of your phone. Rising from your bed, you strode over to your desk to read the caller ID before answering. As your eyes scanned the name across the screen, you took a deep breath, readying yourself for the incoming conversation.

“Hey, why are you crying?” he immediately asked.

You sniffled again. “Ah, it’s nothing. I’m fine… Uh, Taehyung?”

“Yeah?”

“Can you do me a favor?”

“Of course. Anything for my woman.”

Ah, you hoped to be soon. “Can you sing me to sleep?” you murmured, your cheeks inflaming at his term of endearment. You’ve loved him for years now. You had planned to tell him last year, on the first day of summer break, on the day you’d arrive at the summer home. However, the timing wasn’t right. His grandmother fell ill that day, and you didn’t want to be insensitive. So, you waited and waited and waited until you believed it was finally time, which you deemed to be this week. Yes, this was the week you would profess your love.

“Of course, but how would you feel if I came over and we… held each other?”

Your face immediately flushed as you stuttered an answer. “O-okay…”

He released a breath of relief. “Perfect. I’ll sneak through the back door alright? You don’t have to meet me there. I’ll come to you,” he explained, finishing the call before you could mutter your confirmation.

Your heart began to beat faster, your limbs trembling with excitement at the idea of Taehyung enveloping you in his embrace. However, when your eyes raked in the havoc that was your room, you were flown into a frenzy. You hurriedly tidied the room, gathering the papers on the desk into a pile and tossing clothes into a hamper. You realigned the books along the walls and adjusted the volume on your laptop. You readjusted the duvet on the bed and fluffed your pillows. Just as you finished and spun around on your heel to wait for him, he was already standing in the doorway. His chest heaved with each breath, as though he ran as fast as he could, even though he was just next door. His famous boxy smile stretched across his cheeks as he admired your appearance. You blushed under his gaze, reciprocating his smile as his breath continued to steady.

With a heavy sigh, he strode to where you stood and encircled his arms around your waist, your entire body crashing into his from the sheer force. You eagerly slid your arms around his neck, burying your nose into his neck and inhaling his scent. At the familiar fragrance invading your senses, your body relaxed into his as memories flashed through your mind like a movie.

Memories of the bonfires in the middle of the night, marshmallows roasting on the fire as you excitedly talked about a new book. The guitar that would accompany his deep, soulful voice later that night. The shouts of a nearby baseball game while you two stood in a classroom, surrounded by the stale scent of chalk. The open window beside you that allowed the wind to carry the faint smell of cherry blossoms into the room. It was there that you and Taehyung would share your first kiss.

He wouldn’t remember it later.

Revelling in his aroma, you took a deep breath before removing your head from his neck to gaze into his eyes. His pupils held an unrecognizable emotion, an emotion that was most likely reflected in your own, that caused exhilaration to alight through your veins. The hairs on the back of your neck stood straight as the familiar knot of desire twisted in your stomach. The darkening of his facial features had your mouth falling open and your breath hitching. An overwhelming urge to attack his lips with your own arose, but you attempted to reign it in.

Before you could process the need surfacing from his expression alone, he crashed his lips onto yours. You gasped in surprise, his strawberry taste mingling with the banana lingering on your lips. Your eyes fluttered close as you reciprocated the kiss, your fingers lacing through his hair. His grip tightened around your waist before he abruptly pulled away, his lips glistening as he breathed heavily. “Ah, sorry about that. That was unexpected, wasn’t it?” he breathlessly murmured.

“No, no, it’s fine…” you whispered, embarrassed at your answer.

Abruptly, he separated himself from your embrace and led you towards the bed. “It’s late, so let’s get you to sleep,” he explained as he laid you both on the bed before tugging you closer and tucking you under his chin. One of his hands brushed his fingers through your hair as his free arm was slung across your waist. His fingers in your hair caused you to relax into his touch as he began to sing a low, soothing melody.

The lyrics were familiar, but you were too tired to even attempt to identify their source. As he continued, what transpired merely moments before became a distant memory. The heat became tolerable from the distraction that was Taehyung’s heavenly voice and caresses. Your eyelids grew heavy, your heart steadying as his voice lulled you to sleep. You inched closer, closing the gap further as the world around you began to fade. You were willingly falling into the clutches of sleep, but before you did, you faintly heard a whisper above you.

“I love you.”

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roll20bygriff · 7 years ago

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Character Survey (Updated Oct ‘17)

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: Beau Jayson Stoker MEANING: The French word for ‘beautiful’. REASONING: Named for his father. NICKNAME(S): Smoker. Either because he smokes, his hair is the colour of cigarette ash, or his facility to wreck technology. PREFERRED NAME(S): Just Beau. BIRTH DATE: November 13th. AGE: 18 ZODIAC: Scorpio GENDER: Male PRONOUNS: He/him ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Gay SEXUAL ORIENTATION: See above. NATIONALITY: American ETHNICITY: Caucasian CURRENT LOCATION: Oakes University, Colorado LIVING CONDITIONS: Currently living in a dormitory in Oakes University as he’s studying in their Hero Certification Program. TITLE(S): None.

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: Oak Ridge, Tenessee HOMETOWN: Same! SOCIAL CLASS: Working class and circling the drain due to circumstance. Blue collar EDUCATION LEVEL: High School. FATHER: ‘Gone.’ His mother refuses to be drawn further. MOTHER: Raised Beau single-handedly while working as a mechanic. SIBLING(S): None. BIRTH ORDER: N/A CHILDREN: None. PET(S): None. OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: Naw. PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: None. Some girls were drawn to him due to the ‘angry loner’ energy he exuded, but he managed to rebuff them. ARRESTS?: Mainly cautions for teenage mischief and intoxication PRISON TIME?: None

OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: None. He’s a student. SECONDARY SOURCE OF INCOME: N/A TERTIARY SOURCE(S) OF INCOME: N/A. APPROXIMATE AMOUNT PER YEAR: N/A CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THEREOF)?: No. Now that he has his powers under control he’s aiming to be a hero, but if that doesn’t work out at least he can fall back on being a mechanic. PAST JOB(S): He used to help out his mom in the garage before his power became too uncontrollable. SPENDING HABITS: He’s never really had much spending money, and due to his uncontrollable power he never spent it on many luxuries. Mainly cheap beer and weed. MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: A cross necklace given to him years ago by his mother.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: He’s well muscled from physical labour, but he hardly rates on superhuman levels. Gotten stronger and more flexible due to his intense training at the HCP. OFFENSE: He’s had more than his share of fistfights, but that’s all. He’s now incorporated more martial arts into his fighting style. DEFENSE: Again, he knows how to duck and weave. His training means he’s now more combat-aware. SPEED: He doesn’t get winded easily. Stronger and more agile than before. INTELLIGENCE: Largely average except when it comes to technology, where his powers provide him with savant-like ability. ACCURACY: He can throw a football and his fingers are nimble enough for engineering work AGILITY: …is not something he counts as a strength. Tumbling and parrying are now a part of his regimen. STAMINA: Human average. He is pretty tough and hardy, able to endure long-distance runs. TEAMWORK: Terra incognita for him presently - before he got to the HCP no-one wanted to work with him. Now he’s cautiously thinking about attempting to possibly start making a friend.He’s not yet learned through the HCP how to work as a team, but knows it’s something he’ll have to work on - his powers are very situation-specific. He is very loyal to the friends he has made though. TALENTS: He has an intuitive ability with technology that’s off the charts as well as the power to permanently destroy machines. SHORTCOMINGS: His experience of being treated like a leper most of his life combined with being closeted (and thus pushing people away in hopes they don’t discover his ‘secret’) he has severe issues with socialising.Now that he’s out and is dating, and more importantly to him he has some people he considers real friends, he’s overcome his social anxiety somewhat. However, it’s been identified that he has a very binary moral code, something of a double-edged sword in the Hero game. LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: Just English. DRIVE?: For sure. JUMP-STAR A CAR?: Yeah. Jump-start an aircraft carrier? Probably that too. CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: Yes. RIDE A BICYCLE?: Yes. SWIM?: Competently. PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: No, but he can sing a little. PLAY CHESS?: He understands the rules but he’s no good at it. BRAID HAIR?: Never had the circumstances to learn. TIE A TIE?: Definitely. His mama made sure he’s a gentleman. PICK A LOCK?: As easily as breathing.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: Jesy McKinney EYE COLOR: Brown HAIR COLOR: Dark, ranging from charcoal black to almost-white. HAIR TYPE/STYLE: Washed and then tamed by a meshback cap most days. He’s experimenting with a mohawk, now he feels a little more free to express himself. GLASSES/CONTACTS?: Nope DOMINANT HAND: Right. HEIGHT: 5′8″ WEIGHT: 200lbs. BUILD: Best described as ‘solid.’ EXERCISE HABITS: Exercise can be a solitary pursuit, so he definitely keeps himself in shape. He runs with his dorm-mates most mornings, as well as training hard in the HCP facilities. SKIN TONE: White bread, ranging to a farmer’s tan in the summer months. TATTOOS: None yet PIERCINGS: None MARKS/SCARS: A few, from brawls he’s been in. NOTABLE FEATURES: None that weren’t already covered. USUAL EXPRESSION: Sullen and closed-off. CLOTHING STYLE: For now, hard-wearing jeans, caps and leather jackets. He might start leaning towards more of a punk look now he has more freedom of expression. JEWELRY: Just a necklace from his mother. ALLERGIES: None. BODY TEMPERATURE: Average? DIET: He is happy to be able to eat anything. He’s not picky. PHYSICAL AILMENTS: None

PSYCHOLOGY

JUNG TYPE: ISTP JUNG SUBTYPE: SENSORY ISTP ENNEAGRAM TYPE: Challenger MORAL ALIGNMENT: On the classic D&D scale, Neutral Good TEMPERAMENT: Stoic ELEMENT: Earth PRIMARY INTELLIGENCE TYPE: Spatial Intelligence APPROXIMATE IQ: Average. MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: Nothing clinical, but his socialisation is in the pits. SOCIABILITY: Low, but he deeply wants to be otherwise. Still not the life and soul of the party, but he likes spending time with his friends. EMOTIONAL STABILITY: Very quick to lash out at perceived slights. Working hard to get his temper under control - it tends to flare when ��his people’ are threatened. OBSESSION(S): Cars and engineering. COMPULSION(S): None. PHOBIA(S): Snakes ADDICTION(S): Cigarettes DRUG USE: None. ALCOHOL USE: He’s partial to a beer or six. PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: He can handle himself, but he doesn’t enjoy being violent.

MANNERISMS

SPEECH STYLE: He’s a man of few words. ACCENT: Tennesee. QUIRKS: His fingers tend to fidget with things when he’s preoccupied. HOBBIES: Beyond cars and engines, he has a soft spot for Country and Gospel music, and he likes to sing. HABITS: None that haven’t been covered above. NERVOUS TICKS: Most have been channeled into a smoking habit. DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: To make friends, and to prove that he and other powered people aren’t to be feared. He wants to be a champion for his boyfriend Alberto, and by extension other people in the LGBT community. He’s working on being nuanced about it, acknowledging that not everyone needs to have their battles fought for them. FEARS: He worries about his mother being left alone. POSITIVE TRAITS: He’s tenacious, and has a deep drive to do good. NEGATIVE TRAITS: A quick temper. SENSE OF HUMOR: Not terribly sophisticated (like most teenagers) but he’s not usually one to laugh at the misfortune of others or from anything that’s bigoted. DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: Very. CATCHPHRASE(S): None

FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: Working on cars. ANIMAL: Dogs BEVERAGE: Beer BOOK: Not very good at picking books, but… Anything historical he’d enjoy. Non-fiction mainly, but fiction too. (Through historical inaccuracy might make him nerd rage.) CELEBRITY: Jason Statham. COLOR: Black. DESIGNER: Not really applicable. FOOD: Anything fried. FLOWER: Tulips are… nice? GEM: Rubies HOLIDAY: Christmas. It’s been tough for him not being able to go home for the holidays, but since Alberto’s folks have thrown him out he’s been determined to make his boyfriend’s holiday as special as he can manage. MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: Cars. MOVIE: Gone in 60 Seconds (the remake) MUSICAL ARTIST: Dolly Parton QUOTE/SAYING: “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” ― Arthur Roche SCENERY: Wide open spaces. SCENT: Petrol. SPORT: Not really, though he likes Pro Wrestling. SPORTS TEAM: None TELEVISION SHOW: Anything car related, shows like Orange County Choppers, Pimp My Ride, etc. WEATHER: Thunderstorms. VACATION DESTINATION: Orlando.

ATTITUDES

GREATEST DREAM: To have his own mechanic’s shop. GREATEST FEAR: That his mother will be disappointed in him for some reason. MOST AT EASE WHEN: Working on an engine, trying to solve a puzzle. LEAST AT EASE WHEN: Getting to know new people. WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: That he blows his one chance at making new friends. He’s so blissfully happy he worries about imposter syndrome, that people will see the ‘real’ him and abandon him. BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: Getting into the HCP, because it meant putting aside some of his fears. BIGGEST REGRET: All the times he let his temper get the better of him. MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: All the times he was forced to reveal he hadn’t seen the latest movie, heard the hottest music, didn’t have the right cellphone (or any cellphone) BIGGEST SECRET: Being gay. Being in the HCP technically counts, but he feels that his new classmates won’t like him if they find out the former. Now that he’s out, his only worries are his secret identity and that he likes things that aren’t ‘cool’ - country music, WWE.

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. – Henry David Thoreau • A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. – Henry David Thoreau • A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams. – Henry David Thoreau • A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin • A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford • Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning. – Salvador de Madariaga • All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther • All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. – Samuel Johnson • All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. – John Woolman • 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 • Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. – Allan Bloom • Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. – James Madison • Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room. – Anna Garlin Spencer • 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. – Anthony Trollope • As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. – Allan Bloom • As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. – Brigid Schulte • At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. – Charles de Gaulle • Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word ‘cappuccino’ about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. – Hugh Jackman • Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! – Jerry Brown

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Destroy our leisure and you break love’s bow. – Ovid • Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. – Farkas Bolyai • Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! – Sivananda • Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. – Clive Bell • Do not say, ‘When I have leisure, I will study,’ because you may never have leisure. – Hillel the Elder • Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. – W. Somerset Maugham • Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics. – Jerome K. Jerome • Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. – Benjamin Franklin • Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. – Prince Philip • For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. – Sallust • For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. – Katharine Anthony • Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. – Mortimer Adler • From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations. – Marcus Aurelius • Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value. – Naomi Mitchison • Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle • He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. – Henry David Thoreau • He hath no leisure who useth it not. – George Herbert • Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life. – Dorothy Kelley Patterson • How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. – Branch Rickey • I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. – Pearl S. Buck • I am in musical theatre, but it isn’t necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean? – Patti LuPone • I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. – Audrey Hepburn • I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn’t have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked ’til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on – it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am. – Jack Kirby • I hate leisure, except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. – Karl Lagerfeld • I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work�� I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time. – Fred Armisen • I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English – no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting. – Isabel Burton • I keep telling people I’ll make movies until I’m fifty and then I’ll go and do something else. I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. – Eddie Murphy • I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There’s leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane – Hanshan • I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. – Johnny Depp • I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. – Sean Bean • I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides. – Ian Bogost • I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions. – Elsa Barker • I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau • I’d rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. – Jared Diamond • If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. – Alan Bennett • If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love. – Amy Carmichael • If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. • If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources – partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder. – Alan Thein Durning • If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure. – Steve Earle • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle – absolute busyness – then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy – and without consciousness. – Gunter Grass • If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. – Logan Pearsall Smith • I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus • In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. – Thorstein Veblen • In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him – Charles Buxton • In the year 2000 you’re going to have a problem…Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. – Edie Sedgwick • Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli • It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. – W. H. Auden • It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier • It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man’s plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected. – Robert Louis Stevenson • It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure. – William Butler Yeats • It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it. – John Dewey • It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. �� Paul Goodman • Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. – Ovid • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson • Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. – Margaret Mead • Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. – Fulton J. Sheen • leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. – Nan Fairbrother • Leisure is gone,–gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. – George Eliot • Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. – Gilbert Highet • Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! – Edward Young • Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. – Branch Rickey • Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. – William Russell • Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. – George Bernard Shaw • Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. • Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts. – Mary McCarthy • Leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. – Seneca the Younger • Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. – George Zimmerman • Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley • Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. – Amelia B. Edwards • Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. – Oliver Herford • Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. – Lord Byron • Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. – William Shakespeare • Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. – C. Wright Mills • My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. – Michael Strahan • NCL … stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry. – Micky Arison • News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. – Thomas Hood • No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. – Gertrude Atherton • No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? – William Wilberforce • No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. – James K. Polk • Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. – Isabel Paterson • Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. – Seneca the Younger • Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God. – John Piper • O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship. – John Baillie • One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book. – Frances Harper • One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government. – Michelangelo Antonioni • One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’ – David Mamet • Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. – James Ellis • Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. – Henry James • People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. – Andrea Bocelli • People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. – Zhang Yimou • People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. – Madame Roland • People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are. – Raoul Vaneigem • People would have more leisure time if it weren’t for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. – Peg Bracken • Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. – Richard Steele • Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. – Aristotle • Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. – Ovid • Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long…. This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness. – Henri Lefebvre • Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, ’tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain. – Samuel Johnson • Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. – William Congreve • Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness. – Dalai Lama • Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. – Isocrates • Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? – John Sullivan Dwight • Take away leisure and Cupid’s bow is broken – Ovid • Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we’re seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry. – Gary Shapiro • Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. – William Taylor • That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th’ account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure. – William Shakespeare • The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. – Cyril Connolly • The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen • The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. – Robin Sharma • The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. – Laurence J. Peter • The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. – Irwin Edman • The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement – Raymond Chandler • The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle • The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day – it’s people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure. – Rachel Holmes • The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau • The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure – Aristotle • The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. – H. L. Mencken • The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. – Bertrand Russell • The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance. – Paul Goodman • The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both. – James A. Michener • The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. – Ezra Pound • The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw • The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us. – Ronald Reagan • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. – Arthur Lacey • 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. – Henry David Thoreau • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses. – Samuel Johnson • The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. – Oliver DeMille • The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. – Bertrand Russell • The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. – Patrick Murray • The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer’s hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. – Thorstein Veblen • There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau • There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. – Henry Ward Beecher • There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass “”no day without a line””-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. – Herman Melville • Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. – William Lyon Phelps • Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. – William Congreve • To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. – Bertrand Russell • To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God’s love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship. – John Stott • To work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward • Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. – Guy Debord • Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant. – Russell L. Ackoff • Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. – Mason Cooley • Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. – Josef Pieper • Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God’s power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature. – Elizabeth Gilbert • Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. – Isadora Duncan • War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli • We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, ‘Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard’ (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, ‘He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go’ (Ps. 39:6). – Pachomius the Great • We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan • We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. – Charles Spurgeon • We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. – Aristotle • We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. – John Dryden • We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. – Vernon Lee • What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. – Samuel Gompers • What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can’t even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure. – Henry Louis Gates • What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. – Saint Basil • What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. – Henry David Thoreau • What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky. – Victor Hugo • What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. – George Eastman • What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. – Margaret Mead • What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. – Aldous Huxley • When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. – Boy George • When you write an essay, of course you’re going to get pushback, but you’re going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You’re going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do. – George Saunders • Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself. – Bernard Berenson • Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. – William Shakespeare • Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. – Hippocrates • Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. – Marcus Aurelius • Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams • 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. – Sean O’Casey • You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for – Christopher Dawson

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Destroy our leisure and you break love’s bow. – Ovid • Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. – Farkas Bolyai • Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! – Sivananda • Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. – Clive Bell • Do not say, ‘When I have leisure, I will study,’ because you may never have leisure. – Hillel the Elder • Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. – W. Somerset Maugham • Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics. – Jerome K. Jerome • Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. – Benjamin Franklin • Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. – Prince Philip • For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. – Sallust • For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. – Katharine Anthony • Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. – Mortimer Adler • From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations. – Marcus Aurelius • Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value. – Naomi Mitchison • Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle • He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. – Henry David Thoreau • He hath no leisure who useth it not. – George Herbert • Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life. – Dorothy Kelley Patterson • How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. – Branch Rickey • I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. – Pearl S. Buck • I am in musical theatre, but it isn’t necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean? – Patti LuPone • I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. – Audrey Hepburn • I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn’t have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked ’til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on – it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am. – Jack Kirby • I hate leisure, except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. – Karl Lagerfeld • I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work… I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time. – Fred Armisen • I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English – no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting. – Isabel Burton • I keep telling people I’ll make movies until I’m fifty and then I’ll go and do something else. I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. – Eddie Murphy • I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There’s leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane – Hanshan • I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. – Johnny Depp • I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. – Sean Bean • I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides. – Ian Bogost • I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions. – Elsa Barker • I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau • I’d rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. – Jared Diamond • If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. – Alan Bennett • If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love. – Amy Carmichael • If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. • If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources – partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder. – Alan Thein Durning • If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure. – Steve Earle • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle – absolute busyness – then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy – and without consciousness. – Gunter Grass • If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. – Logan Pearsall Smith • I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus • In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. – Thorstein Veblen • In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him – Charles Buxton • In the year 2000 you’re going to have a problem…Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. – Edie Sedgwick • Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli • It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. – W. H. Auden • It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier • It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man’s plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected. – Robert Louis Stevenson • It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure. – William Butler Yeats • It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it. – John Dewey • It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. – Paul Goodman • Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. – Ovid • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson • Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. – Margaret Mead • Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. – Fulton J. Sheen • leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. – Nan Fairbrother • Leisure is gone,–gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. – George Eliot • Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. – Gilbert Highet • Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! – Edward Young • Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. – Branch Rickey • Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. – William Russell • Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. – George Bernard Shaw • Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. • Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts. – Mary McCarthy • Leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. – Seneca the Younger • Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. – George Zimmerman • Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley • Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. – Amelia B. Edwards • Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. – Oliver Herford • Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. – Lord Byron • Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. – William Shakespeare • Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. – C. Wright Mills • My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. – Michael Strahan • NCL … stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry. – Micky Arison • News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. – Thomas Hood • No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. – Gertrude Atherton • No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? – William Wilberforce • No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. – James K. Polk • Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. – Isabel Paterson • Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. – Seneca the Younger • Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God. – John Piper • O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship. – John Baillie • One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book. – Frances Harper • One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government. – Michelangelo Antonioni • One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’ – David Mamet • Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. – James Ellis • Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. – Henry James • People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. – Andrea Bocelli • People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. – Zhang Yimou • People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. – Madame Roland • People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are. – Raoul Vaneigem • People would have more leisure time if it weren’t for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. – Peg Bracken • Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. – Richard Steele • Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. – Aristotle • Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. – Ovid • Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long…. This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness. – Henri Lefebvre • Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, ’tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain. – Samuel Johnson • Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. – William Congreve • Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness. – Dalai Lama • Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. – Isocrates • Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? – John Sullivan Dwight • Take away leisure and Cupid’s bow is broken – Ovid • Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we’re seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry. – Gary Shapiro • Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. – William Taylor • That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th’ account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure. – William Shakespeare • The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. – Cyril Connolly • The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen • The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. – Robin Sharma • The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. – Laurence J. Peter • The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. – Irwin Edman • The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement – Raymond Chandler • The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle • The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day – it’s people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure. – Rachel Holmes • The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau • The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure – Aristotle • The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. – H. L. Mencken • The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. – Bertrand Russell • The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance. – Paul Goodman • The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both. – James A. Michener • The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. – Ezra Pound • The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw • The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us. – Ronald Reagan • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. – Arthur Lacey • 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. – Henry David Thoreau • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses. – Samuel Johnson • The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. – Oliver DeMille • The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. – Bertrand Russell • The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. – Patrick Murray • The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer’s hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. – Thorstein Veblen • There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau • There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. – Henry Ward Beecher • There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass “”no day without a line””-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. – Herman Melville • Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. – William Lyon Phelps • Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. – William Congreve • To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. – Bertrand Russell • To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God’s love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship. – John Stott • To work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward • Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. – Guy Debord • Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant. – Russell L. Ackoff • Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. – Mason Cooley • Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. – Josef Pieper • Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God’s power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature. – Elizabeth Gilbert • Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. – Isadora Duncan • War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli • We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, ‘Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard’ (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, ‘He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go’ (Ps. 39:6). – Pachomius the Great • We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan • We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. – Charles Spurgeon • We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. – Aristotle • We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. – John Dryden • We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. – Vernon Lee • What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. – Samuel Gompers • What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can’t even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure. – Henry Louis Gates • What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. – Saint Basil • What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. – Henry David Thoreau • What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky. – Victor Hugo • What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. – George Eastman • What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. – Margaret Mead • What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. – Aldous Huxley • When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. – Boy George • When you write an essay, of course you’re going to get pushback, but you’re going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You’re going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do. – George Saunders • Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself. – Bernard Berenson • Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. – William Shakespeare • Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. �� Hippocrates • Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. – Marcus Aurelius • Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams • 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. – Sean O’Casey • You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for – Christopher Dawson

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