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Quotes About Breaks

I think it is really important for all of us to take breaks because we get so bored with our daily monotonous lives. I feel we become robotic so it is important to break that vicious circle in which we get caught.
~ Jasmin Bhasin
I'll take a couple of breaks for some food, but other than that, that's pretty much all I do is play videogames and practice with my team.
~ Ninja
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
~ Unknown
And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.
~ Joanne Harris
There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.
~ Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
I think that a fierce woman's better, a woman That breaks away when you have thought her won, For I'd be fed and hungry at one time.
~ W.B. Yeats
Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
Homestead 42 is being aided and abetted by the most respectable of America's robber barons—but don't worry, they'll be rewarded in giveaway tax breaks by Lindbergh's Republican henchmen in the next pro-greed Congress.
~ Philip Roth
ABC is that old ability,breaks and courage.
~ Unknown
Although the work dates from the Early Renaissance, Gentile shows an affinity with these older traditions in his style and materials, which implies there are not such clear breaks between one artistic period and the next.
~ Unknown
elite performers have something in common: They're really good at taking breaks
~ Daniel H. Pink
High performers, its research concludes, work for fifty-two minutes and then break for seventeen minutes.
~ Daniel H. Pink
continuing to think about job demands during breaks may result in strain.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Vigilance breaks prevent deadly mistakes. Restorative breaks enhance performance. Lunches and naps help us elude the trough and get more and better work done in the afternoon. A growing body of science makes it clear: Breaks are not a sign of sloth but a sign of strength.
~ Daniel H. Pink
The good news is that vigilance breaks can loosen the trough's grip on our behavior. As the doctors at the University of Michigan demonstrate, inserting regular mandatory vigilance breaks into tasks helps us regain the focus needed to proceed with challenging work that must be done in the afternoon.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Social breaks are effective
~ Daniel H. Pink
Breaks and recess are not deviations from learning. They are part of learning.
~ Daniel H. Pink
High performers, its research concludes, work for fifty-two minutes and then break for seventeen minutes. DeskTime never published the data in a peer-reviewed journal, so your mileage may vary. But the evidence is overwhelming that short breaks are effective—and deliver considerable bang for their limited buck. Even "micro-breaks" can be helpful.19
~ Daniel H. Pink
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.
~ William Shakespeare
I find that major trends are now frequently preceded by a sharp price change in the opposite direction. I still make my judgments as to probable price trends based on overall market action, as I always did. However, with a few exceptions, I now buy on breaks and sell on rallies.
~ Jack D. Schwager
A funny thing about code is that when left alone, it gets moldy and breaks of its own accord. This is true of product code and test code. A large part of maintenance engineering is about monitoring quality, not looking for new issues.
~ James A. Whittaker
It's in those little breaks in our companionship with God where confusion sets in about what we're really supposed to do. (11) Isaiah 30:21 ref
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
~ Unknown
Opportunity is always around us. We just have to find it in the particular places according to proper timings...
~ Unknown