Quotes on Hobbies

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of_x000D_ inspector of desert water holes.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or problems...I have embarked on this geometric problem again and again over the years, trying to throw light on different aspects each time. I cannot imagine what my life would be like if this problem had never occurred to me; one might say that I am head over heels in love with it, and I still don't know why.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.