Loafing Quotes

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne. (John Hay)
"Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult. View quote
Peter Drucker
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming. View quote
David Morrissey
One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition. View quote
Edwin Moses
In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aim- lessly. You don't get anywhere by not ‘wasting' time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget. View quote
Carlo Rovelli
I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. View quote
Larry Bird
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. View quote
William Arthur Ward
Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing. (E. W. Howe)
Why should I be more ‘cautious, careful,' as you say? I stay in the big leagues as long as I do because I play only one way. I know I take too many, maybe. I know I should not sometimes dive for the ball-or hit the wall trying to catch it- as much as I do. But you catch the ball, you help your team. You don't catch it, you don't help your team. I believe playing, how you say, ‘all out' has prolonged my career. If a ballplayer starts loafing, he tends to lose that little push that is so necessary, so important. You get lazy, won't take even the smallest chance; kind of lose interest. Your rhythm, I guess it is, gets all messed up. Fly balls start falling on you, when they should not. And you find yourself not getting around on the ball like you should. Once you lose this ‘little push,' then it is awfully hard to get back in the groove... get yourself going again. Your ambition – desire – suffers. And you become the kind of ballplayer you don't want to be. View quote
Roberto Clemente
Family Affair, to spend time with his family in Hawaii, before casting as Hardcastle: "I get tired of sitting home and doin' nothing. If I'm doing something eight months of the year, I don't mind loafing the other four. But, lately, I've been finding fewer and fewer movies I'd like to do. And when that happens, I get hard to live with. Then this thing came along. I read it. I liked it. This character Hardcastle: I figured I could live with him for five years if I had to. There was something going on there. You don't get a helluva lot of character in series TV. They're more likely to star the car. View quote
Brian Keith
I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine." "Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short. View quote
Shannon Hale
A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take. View quote
Beryl Markham
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing. View quote
Ford Frick
There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully. View quote
Victor Mature
We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can. View quote
Zig Ziglar
...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation") View quote
E. F. Benson
Bobby could do more things than any player I've ever seen. I used to coach third base for Preston Gomez in San Diego. Once he told me, "Now, I want you to know about Clemente cause he'll play a game with you. If we have a man on first and there's a base hit to right field, he'll pretend to be loafing in on it. The moment you start to wave for that runner to come to third – look out, there's gonna be an explosion." Well, sure enough, I don't know what inning it was, but the situation came up, he put me in his trap and I did it. And let me tell you, my runner was about two-thirds of the way to third when the ball arrived. I came into the dugout and Preston was laughing. He said, ‘What did I tell you?' But that was Roberto. There wasn't anything he couldn't do. (Roberto Clemente)