Top 10 free time quotes With Example

“You may be wondering what else I do with my free time. I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy ass watching TV. But also do you, so don’t judge.”

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Andy Weir,


The Martian

“Ah,” Gary said dreamily. ” ‘Free time.’ I’ve heard about that. Don’t fool yourself, Fire-Top. What with extra hours of lessons for punishments, and the extra work you get every day, free time is an illusion. It’s what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. We all face up to it sooner or later–the only real free time you get here is what my honored sire chooses to give you, when he thinks you have earned it.”
“And he doesn’t give it to you at night,” Alex put in. “He gives it to you when you’ve been here awhile, on Market Day and sometimes a morning or afternoon all to yourself. But never at night. At night you study. During the day you study. In your sleep–”

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Tamora Pierce,


Alanna: The First Adventure

“One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov,


Heart of a Dog

“Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.”

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E.A. Bucchianeri

“I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of cricket, lay peacefully by the Stour, well upstream of the rhythmic creaking and the exhortation, reading Lily Christine and Gibbon and gossiping with kindred lotus-eaters under the willow-branches.”

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Patrick Leigh Fermor,


A Time of Gifts

“I have no hobby. As far as my activities beyond the bounds of my recognized profession are concerned, I take them all, without exception, very seriously. So much so, that I should be horrified by the idea that they had anything to do with hobbies—preoccupations in which I had become mindlessly infatuated in order to kill the time—had I not become hardened by experience to such examples of this now widespread, barbarous mentality.”

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Theodor W. Adorno,


The Culture Industry

“Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don’t have any of it right now.”

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Jon Stewart

“It’s not possible to move from one activity to the next at blinding speed and be reflective at the same time. The more complex and demanding the work we do, the wider, deeper and longer the perspective we require to do it well. It’s almost impossible to do that when we create no white space in our lives.”

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Tony Schwartz

“It’s surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind.”

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Brittany Burgunder

“It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing that you care for the best, and that is your leisure – the leisure you have to think; the leisure you have to be let alone; the leisure you have to throw the plummet into your mind, and sound the depth and dive for things below.”

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James A. Garfield,


The Works Of James Abram Garfield

“If something has to be done, one might as well do it when one has a lot of free time.”

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Mohammed Hanif,


Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

“I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I don’t have to think at all. It’s like I just put my brain in a locker before I start work and pick it up on the way home. I spend seven hours a day at a workbench, planting hairs into wig bases, then I eat dinner in the cafeteria, take a bath, and of course I have to sleep, like everybody else, so out of a twenty-four-hour day, the amount of free time I have is like nothing. And because I’m so tired from work, the ‘free time’ I have I mostly spend lying around in a fog. I don’t have any time to sit and think about anything. Of course, I don’t have to work on the weekends, but then I have to do the laundry and cleaning I’ve let go, and sometimes I go into town, and before I know it the weekend is over. I once made up my mind to keep a diary, but I had nothing to write, so I quit after a week. I mean, I just do the same thing over and over again, day in, day out.”

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Haruki Murakami,


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“since you are spending time to watch a movies , make it a useful time for a great movie , not just a good movie .. movies are like food , some meals are delicious and some of them satisfy us and fill our stomach , but not every meal contain vitamins !”

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Mahdi Khmi

“I’m getting too old to waste my free time on things and people I don’t like.”

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Nitya Prakash

“Too much isolation can be a danger to you and your health. It is a hazard to the common people, as well as a benefit to those who know how to use their free time.”

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Mwanandeke Kindembo,


Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“They call it free time
and it’s the biggest lie
because we are
still here”

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Ibi Zoboi,


Punching the Air

“The problem with idleness and satisfaction to own skill-set & knowledge is similar to waiting under a tree for the fruit to fall, rather than utilizing the spare time in learning to climb the tree.”

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Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“Free time allows building of reputations — either as someone who is excellent at killing time by doing nothing or someone who can utilize the time by creating things out of nothing.

People becoming habitual to doing nothing, get nothing at the end.”

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Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“Don’t be someone’s free time!”

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Nitya Prakash

“He is self-conscious because everyone knows he has wings but they’ve never seen him fly. Now & then there will be a feather in odd places or maybe a footprint to show he was there. All in all, he thinks it’s nobody else’s business what he does with his free time.”

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Brian Andreas,


Still Mostly True

“Humans spend years eating, sleeping, working, and worrying about those things, but it is their free time that is most important. If spent well it can render them into great people, if squandered, it cannot.”

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C.A.A. Savastano

“This agitation is becoming so great that the higher culture can no longer allow its fruits to ripen; it is as if the seasons were following to quickly from one another. From lack of rest, our civilization is ending in a new barbarism. Never have the active, which is to say the restless, people been prized more. Therefore, one of the necessary correctives that must be applied to the character of humanity is a massive strengthening of the contemplative element.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche,


Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“With each little bit of exercise I did, each time I chose to move a little more, everything became easier. My brain was juicing up on all those good neurochemicals—all that serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine began making things happen. The BDNF was silently working away. As a result, not only did I have a bigger appetite, but food tasted better, and I wanted to eat healthier foods. I didn’t worry about things as much, and my sleep improved. I felt like I had more free time and even felt younger. Then exercise became more appealing, and slowly I became intrigued by the thought of a marathon.”

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Alex Korb,


The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time