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Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge. -- Joseph Hall
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. -- Alan Parker
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. -- Izaak Walton
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. -- Edward Bellamy
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. -- Miguel de Cervantes
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. -- John Wanamaker
When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself. -- Bryant McGill
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer. -- Samuel I. Prime
I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character. -- Ben Schwartz
I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character. -- Ben Schwartz
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. -- Edward Weston
Can we all admit that 'Parks and Recreation' is horrible? Is this something we would all know, but don't say? Maybe everything should not be improv'd. -- Andy Kindler
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands. -- Nick Offerman
It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators. -- Russell L. Ackoff
I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands. -- Nick Offerman
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands. -- Dorothy Thompson
I watch my favorite shows-The Walking Dead, The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation-on Netflix to unwind. Actually, I eat most of my meals while watching Netflix. It's like my companion. -- Hannah Kearney
I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup. -- Carlos Alazraqui
There's going to be a new cable-TV channel for dogs. Dogs don't even watch TV. But the schedule came out today. And they've got great shows, like Barks & Recreation and Game of Bones. -- Craig Ferguson
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break. -- Elizabeth Prentiss
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more. -- Irvine Welsh
I was very active in the Parks and Recreation department. I recall a lot of the things we had to do, from the trips for the department to organizing a Little League, those sorts of things. -- Mike Scully
Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire. -- Rob Sheffield
Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had. -- Aziz Ansari
I rely on my iPad for on-the-go entertainment. I stock it with TV shows, like 'Parks and Recreation' and the British version of 'The Office.' I'm reading a Charles Manson biography on it too, since I'm weirdly into true crime. -- Phoebe Tonkin
Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about. -- Amy Poehler
I love the NBC comedies. I DVR 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Community,' 'The Office,' '30 Rock.' I love most of the HBO shows. I love 'Archer.' 'Archer's a great show. I'm big on Netflix; I've seen every episode of 'Freaks and Geeks.' We need more shows like that. -- Stephen Colletti
We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia -- Chris Patten
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. -- Stephen Ambrose
Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong. -- Georges Wolinski
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. -- Brigham Young
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. -- George Eliot
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. -- Michel de Montaigne
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. -- Leslie Stephen
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity. -- Karl Marx
Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe. -- Ray Manzarek
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. -- Walt Disney
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system. -- Ron Kind
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness. -- Brigham Young
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry. -- B. C. Forbes
And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits. -- Ed Rendell
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
My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that? -- Paula Creamer
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. -- Bob Hope
We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. -- Mike Rounds
I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan. -- Luke Scott
Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun. -- Bobby Orr
Every night, I say goodnight to the kids like Rajesh Khanna, muah muah, two kisses, say goodnight to my wife, and every night, I'd go to the recreation room and watch cricket with two old men. -- Cyrus Broacha
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. -- Emily Post
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. -- Avery Brundage
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. -- Robert Reich
Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. -- Brandi Chastain
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral. -- Leland Ryken
The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy. -- Issa Rae
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures. -- John Garamendi
Conservation must become before recreation. -- Prince Charles
Art is both creation and recreation. -- Lin Yutang
The best recreation is to do good. -- William Penn
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. -- Blaise Pascal
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation. -- Vladimir Lenin
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. -- Orville Dewey
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation. -- Anna Howard Shaw
Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business. -- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds. -- Philip Guedalla
Families must spend more time together in work and recreation. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year -- Lee Majors
I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year. -- Lee Majors
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. -- Ambrose Bierce
Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. -- Lewis Carroll
Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young -- Susa Young Gates
The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance. -- George M. Church
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole. -- Mort Sahl
In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world. -- John W. Gardner
The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer. -- Samuel Chadwick
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. -- Francis Quarles
It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess. -- David Toms
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. -- Henry David Thoreau
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. -- Laura Joh Rowland
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. -- Albert Camus
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. -- Michel de Montaigne
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. -- Frederick Rolfe
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it. -- Tom Stoppard
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts. -- Confucius
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. -- Thomas Jefferson
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation. -- John Locke
The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives. -- Jack Canfield
It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do. -- Steve Carell
Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active. -- Lee Haney
Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize. -- Eda LeShan
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness. -- Aldo Leopold
I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation. -- Louis C. K.
Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. -- Patch Adams
Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry. -- E. V. Knox
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. -- Robin Boyd
I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too. -- Rick Ross
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. -- Leo Tolstoy
I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania. -- Ed Rendell
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement, -- Strom Thurmond
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation. -- Seneca the Younger
The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience. -- Warren Spector
As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world. -- Anna Halprin
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! -- Michael Caine
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important. -- Lin Yutang
Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation. -- Brigham Young
Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control. -- Janice Hahn
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts. -- Confucius
The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho. -- Michael K. Simpson
Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune. -- Anne of Austria
People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. -- Marion D. Hanks
In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget. -- Walt Disney
In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication. -- Maxine Cheshire
I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites. -- Robert Towne
Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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