It's amazing how long it takes to complete something you are not working
on.
— Unknown wise person
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want
to do.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
You don't have to watch one minute of TV when you retire — and perhaps
you shouldn’t!
— from the international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard
them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will
become the brightest gems in a useful life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when
you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
— Douglas Hofstadter
THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE: The first 80 percent of the project takes
80 percent of the time and the last 20 percent of the project takes
another 80 percent of the time.
— Graffiti
Remember that nothing matters very much, and few things matter at
all.
— Arthur Balfour
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is
to seem busily employed on things that are already done.
— John Kennett Galbraith
Choose one of these three ways to handle a task fast:
1: Do it yourself.
2: Hire an expert to handle it for you.
3: Decide that it isn't worth doing and strike it off your to-do
list.
— from 1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement
If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging.
— Roy W. Walters
Never do today what you can do as well tomorrow; because something
may occur to make you regret your premature action.
— Aaron Burr
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
— Sydney J.Harris
you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
— John Gage
Doing a thing well, particularly in your retirement years, is often
a waste of time.
— from 1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement
When you are doing something difficult, tedious, or extremely time-consuming,
ask yourself what would happen if you didn't do it. If the answer
is nothing, or next to nothing, stop doing it.
— from 1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement
Don't overdo things that shouldn't be done in the first place.
— Unknown wise person
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
— W. H. DAVIES
Always take an emergency leisurely.
— Chinese proverb
Leisure [particularly in retirement] is the most challenging responsibility
a man can be offered.
— William Russell
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose.
That is what leisure means.
— Alan Bennett
Few Americans even know what "leisure" really means, and commonly
confuse it with recreation or time off from work, even if that time
is spent doing chores.
— Shannon Mullen
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
— Henry David Thoreau
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows
morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a
life worth living.
— Cicero
It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to
do.
— Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the best product of civilization.
— Bertrand Russell
Leisure may prove to be a curse rather than a blessing, unless education
teaches a flippant world leisure is not a synonym for entertainment.
— William J. Bogan
To have no aptitude for leisure is to have no aptitude for life.
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going
too fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
— Eddie Cantor
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