Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Leisure activities like sports are just as important to a nation's health as work.
In plain terms
Fun and sports are as important as work.
What can you take from it?
Value recreation as much as work.

Where it applies

  • policy making
  • personal scheduling
  • national budget

Putting it to work

  • allocate budget for leisure
  • promote sports
  • balance work and play

Questions to consider

  • How much value do you place on leisure?
  • Is your budget balanced?

Another view

Some economies prioritize production over recreation heavily.

More from Walt Disney

  1. Laughter is America's most important export.

    Permalink to quote #53
  2. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they t…

    Permalink to quote #55
  3. It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

    Permalink to quote #52

Related quotes

  1. Artists shouldn't be made famous. You know... they're just ... as important as... um doctors, and priests ... or maybe not as important sometimes, and yet they…

    Kate BushKate Bush quote #1
  2. An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

    Michael WinnerMichael Winner quote #1
  3. No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

    John RuskinJohn Ruskin quote #1