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“Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.”

“Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.”

Knows Children Hard Home Jobs Mother Values Father Parent Ability Know How Clear Share Identity Duty Envy Boundaries Intimacy Closeness Switching Switching Off

Author:Terri E Apter

“Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.”

Stills Light Doors Cry Cat Locked Switching Indignant Switching Off

Author:Pam Brown

“But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.”

Dream Might Fall Loses Worry Thread Switching Switching Off

Author:Kate Winslet

“I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.”

Sometimes Character Forget Who I Am Switching Switching Off

Author:Luke Evans

“When I was playing Dracula I had to switch off from the reality and fall into this fantasy world. Otherwise I just couldn't cope with what I was doing. It's about switching off. It is about trying to flick a switch, which you have to do.”

World Trying Reality Fall Fantasy Switching Fantasy Worlds Switching Off

Author:Luke Evans

“to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap”

Knows Believe Mean Light Behinds Mystery Design Everyday Acknowledge Complexity Mechanism Gestures Reflexes Unlearn Switching Switching Off

Book:The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

“Switching off perfection switched on the human quality”

Humans Quality Perfection Switching Human Qualities Switching Off

Author:Questlove

“The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”

Children Helping Light Might Would Be Order Greater Effects Planets Britain Magnitude Switching Switching Off

Author:John Guillebaud

“The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.”

Reason Emotion Intellectual Elimination Switching Castration Switching Off

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.”

Needs Giving Children Enough Able Mother Ability Birth Milk Switching Switching Off

Author:Marvin Harris