Best Down Time Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We often think that our affairs, great or small, must be tended continuously and in detail, or our world will disintegrate, and we will lose our places in the universe. That is not true, or if it is true, then our situations were so temporary that they would have collapsed anyway.”

Attention Focus Busyness Time Away Down Time Vacation Time

Book:Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.”

Mean I Can Remember Loses Tears Coaching Ups & Downs Bad Times Down Time

Author:Don Nelson

“There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.”

Enjoy Down Time

Author:Dave Lombardo

“There's no down time any more.”

Down Time

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.”

Writing Song Enjoy Situation Busy Bunch Down Time

Author:Kate Voegele

“I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.”

Plans Projects Meetings Starting Panic Down Time

Author:David Morrissey

“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Made Two Whole Film Certain Walks Minutes Havens Painting Consumed Gallery Down Time

Author:Julie Mehretu

“Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.”

Hard Routine Worth It Scheduling Down Time

Author:Daniel Goleman

“I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.”

Eye Time Tied Bowls Shut Up Rope Clams Down Time

Author:Anne Sexton

“Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.”

Source: The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5

“I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that.”

Mind Jobs Amount Lucky Projects Fairs Nervous Lazy Take Me Down Time

Author:Paul Giamatti

“The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.”

Hardest Brown Hardest Thing Down Time

Author:James Brown

“The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids' dances. They were called "lead outs" for kids in high school. We played wherever we could - in the down time when you weren't recording, people had to make money.”

People Kids School Guy Party Musician High School Making Money Muscles Great Music Fraternity Great Musician Down Time

Author:Donnie Fritts

“Even though I worked hard at times, it was always magical. I have to confess I enjoyed every minute of it. Even the down times I enjoyed, because we were creating something that would make people smile and lift their hearts. You can't think of a better job than that.”

People Thinking Heart Hard Jobs Minutes Creating Enjoyed Lifts Better Jobs Creating Something Down Time Make People Smile

Author:Floyd Norman

“Too much down time makes us miss home.”

Home Too Much Missing Down Time

Author:Glenn Tipton

“Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.”

Wanted Stuff Soccer Down Time Playing Soccer

Author:Tiffeny Milbrett

“When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!”

World Writing Plans Shining Lazy Free Time Down Time

Author:Ace Antonio Hall

“Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.”

Thinking Years Lasts Sound Decision Wonder New York Position Honestly Setting Settings Last Year Jet Bulgaria Down Time

Author:Sean Mahon

“I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.”

Writing Creative Outlets Down Time Creative Outlets

Author:John Cariani

“There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.”

Character Actors Character Actors Down Time

Author:John Cariani

“Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.”

Way Faces Turns Pay Attention Television Listening Habit Computer Contrary Fixed Routine Outlets Respectful Viewpoints Turn Off Down Time

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.”

Ifs Years Looks Whole Courses Actors Balance Periods Balanced Whole Year Down Time

Author:Elaine Cassidy

“In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.”

Moments Down Time

Author:Horace Panter

“Comedy shows in D.C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people need, they need their down time. D.C. audiences are almost universally praised by comedians.”

People Thinking Needs Shows Fun Audience Comedy Areas Connected Intense Comedian Comedy Shows Down Time

Author:Joe Rogan

“I took a complete year off the road, but a big part of that year was making 'The Big Revival.' I needed that down time just so I could concentrate. The one thing that starts it all for us is the music. That's what you create in the studio. That's where the magic happens.”

Years Bigs Happens Magic One Thing Needed Studios Revival Down Time

Author:Kenny Chesney

“It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?”

Knows Situation Easier Loyal Cheat Down Time

Author:Ali Larter

“With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.”

Kind Moments Loses Terrible Athlete Artistic Muscles Down Time

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.”

Littles Shows Seems Four Boxes Studios Decades Bottles Apartment Slow Down Jars Vases Nicholson Down Time Bologna

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'”

Knows Wells Ends Careers Band Kissing Critics Kiss Me Overhead Vulture Down Time

Author:Paul Stanley

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

Giving Time Strange Habit Dread Harry Potter Slow Down Potters Strange Things Speeding Concept Of Time Harry Potter Series Down Time Harry Potter Birthday Speeding Up

Author:J. K. Rowling

“It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon. Opal tapped this into her notepad. Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable?”

Would Be Hours Doors Magic Team Easier Moon Slow Down Reminders Tunnels Warlocks Opal Down Time Notepads

Author:Eoin Colfer

“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?”

Men Bricks Drowning Straws Down Time

Book:Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.”

Littles Alive Travel Intense Funny Travel Down Time

Author:Josh Lucas

“Down time is not the name of the game.”

Games Names Down Time Strivers

Author:Usher

“I really love having lots of down time with my kids.”

Kids Down Time

Author:Molly Shannon

“There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.”

Too Much Trouble Blessing Boredom Down Time

Author:Jeremy Renner

“And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.”

Reason Literature Stuff Shakes Entertaining Great Literature Down Time

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.”

Time Song Knees Down Time

Author:Eric Clapton

“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.”

Giving Humans May Self Facts Artist Choices Energy Goal Pleasure Destiny Return Scientist Lays Entrepreneur Athlete Deeds Giving Back Transforming Doers Down Time

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.”

Moving Creativity Quiet Boredom Wheels Fuel Down Time Hiatus

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.”

Inspirational Long Running Quiet Bike Observing Bicycle Quiet Time Down Time

Author:Robin Williams

“As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.”

Giving Trying Actors Energy Familiar Down Time

Author:Iain Glen

“I write in the mornings. During my down time.”

Writing Morning Down Time

Author:Stanley Tucci

“I'm afraid if I don't keep moving, they're going to catch me ... I am 81 years old and I want to see what's around the corner, and I don't see any reason in the world not to keep working. But I am starting to value my down time a great deal because I am realizing there might be other things to do that I am overlooking.”

Ifs World Want Years Reason Might Moving Values Realizing Deals Starting Corners Things To Do Keep Moving Around The Corner Catch Me Overlooking Down Time

Author:Leslie Nielsen

“With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.”

Writing Two Hard Kids Naps Down Time Nap Time

Author:Tori Spelling

“I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!”

Want Sleep These Days Down Time

Author:Shawn Johnson