Jessica Jung
Singer
"My specialty is sleeping and my hobby is also sleeping."
Hobbies quotes
Hobbies
270 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business."
Fran Lebowitz
Author, Essayist
"A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Beware the hobby that eats."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"
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"Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours."
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"I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free."
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"Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever."
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"In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies."
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"I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it."
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
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"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today."
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"When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well."
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"Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models."
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"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."
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"Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle."
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"Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid."
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"I have worked all of my life, so I really don't have any hobbies."
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"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know."
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"The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man."
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"I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things."
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"Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle."
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"If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby."
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"History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system."
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"I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work."
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