All Quotes By Tag: Hobby
“Getting to know experienced people is the best leisure time you can have.”
“The secret to being successful in any field is getting very interested in it… I could force myself to be fairly good in a lot of things, but I couldn’t excel in anything in which I didn’t have an intense interest”
“Take up a hobby and bring back the passion in life. Don’t let stress creep in to cause you mayhem and strife.”
“But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?” “I’ll make time,” I promised. “The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I’ll sing to them while I work.”
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“Work hard. Work dirty. Choose your favourite spade and dig a small, deep hole; located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra. Then bury your cellphone and then find a hobby. Actually, ‘hobby’ is not a weighty enough word to represent what I am trying to get across. Let’s use ‘discipline’ instead. If you engage in a discipline or do something with your hands, instead of kill time on your phone device, then you have something to show for your time when you’re done. Cook, play music, sew, carve, shit – bedazzle! Or, maybe not bedazzle… The arrhythmic is quite simple, instead of playing draw something, fucking draw something! Take the cleverness you apply to words with friends and utilise it to make some kick ass cornbread, corn with friends – try that game. I’m here to tell you that we’ve been duped on a societal level. My favourite writer, Wendell Berry writes on this topic with great eloquence, he posits that we’ve been sold a bill of goods claiming that work is bad. That sweating and working especially if soil or saw dust is involved are beneath us. Our population especially the urbanites, has largely forgotten that working at a labour that one loves is actually a privilege.”
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“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
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“A photograph shouldn’t be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”