Quotes About Reflection

When I first left the Eagles, I said, 'That's it. I'm going to play golf.' After 10 days, it was like... there has to be more to life! I can still swing a golf club, and don't forget, Les Paul played until he literally passed away.

I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with 'Swing Time.'

I don't really watch video, but I see the replay; like when I do strike out, and I'm walking back to the dugout, I look up and see if they do show the replay of me swinging and missing.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

We were brought up with having a love of your garden, having somewhere you can go in, it's your little sanctuary, you can go there and you can switch off.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.

My mind is never stopping. I think, if you stop, you die. Maybe it is a problem for me - I have to talk to myself and say, 'Please stop. Switch off.'

I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.

I have an inability after matches are over to sort of switch off and relax completely.

Yes, I'm grateful for technology. But I'm also happy for the off switch.

You're so emotionally connected to the game that it's hard to switch off afterwards. It's a good time to have open and honest conversations about your performance and what you can improve on next time.

I am content, ambitious and equally know the need to switch off from work. My world is big enough to go beyond movies too.

It's nice to have a few moments at night to help me switch off.

I love listening to old 'Desert Island Discs' - I just sit there, switch my head off, and just have that moment.

When you walk into the cinema you have to switch your phones off, you get involved with the big screen, you cry with the film, you laugh with the film. It actually drives the message home far stronger than when you quickly see it on your phone.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.

My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.