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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.
We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.
I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.
I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.
From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
