"How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life."

-- J. Richard Clarke

#Opportunity Quotes #Pyramids Quotes #Joy Quotes

“We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.”
“With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited, make the unit of the chapters small so that you can finish one a day, at least in the first draft. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft. I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.”
“A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.”
“A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.”
“We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.”
“You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.”
“The only important statistic is the final score.”

Source : "At 75, Russell still casts long shadow over All-Star circus" by Mark Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2009.
“The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.”

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