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Quotes About Rest

Decades of work from multiple different subfields within psychology all point toward the conclusion that regularly resting your brain improves the quality of your deep work. When you work, work hard. When you're done, be done.
~ Cal newport
When you work, work hard. When you're done, be done.
~ Cal newport
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
~ Captain J. A. Hadfield
learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest
~ Gavin de Becker
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
~ Gayle Forman
Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.
~ Gayle Forman
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.
~ Gayle Forman
Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy." "Really? Was that how you quit me?" And just like that, without thinking, without saying it in my head first, without arguing with myself for days, it's out there. "So," she says, as if speaking to an audience under the bridge. "He finally says it.
~ Gayle Forman
sleeping late, like unconsciousness, happened for a reason. Because your body knew you couldn't handle being awake.
~ Gayle Forman
Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
~ Gayle Forman
Que alguien me despierte cuando haya acabado, cuando el silencio nocturno pase del negro al dorado sólo quiero tenderme en un lecho de tréboles. Oh, necesito ayuda con esta carga.
~ Gayle Forman
Dormir sin soñar. He oído hablar sobre el sueño de los muertos. ¿Será así la muerte? ¿Como el sueñecito más agradable, cálido y profundo del mundo, un sueño sin fin? En ese caso, no me importaría. Si morir es así, de verdad que no me preocuparía en absoluto.
~ Gayle Forman
Maddox held Ashlyn for several hours as she napped, hopefully reviving body and soul. Time was his enemy, midnight fast sneaking up on him, but he didn't wake her
~ Gena Showalter
Do not worry about the nights you owe me," he said. "I will come back when you are better rested." I leaned back and closed my eyes. "I'll give you your nights, Devyn. You more than earned them. But you know what? I don't think you'll claim them. You're a man of honor, and you know I love another man." Silence. Silence that lasted a long, long time. "Damn you," he finally muttered.
~ Gena Showalter
everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, wip gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting.
~ Gene Kim
Information Security is always flashing their badges at people and making urgent demands, regardless of the consequences to the rest of the organization, which is why we don't invite them to many meetings.
~ Gene Kim
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
~ Gene Perret
Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.
~ Gene Perret
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter — when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
~ Gene Perret
When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.
~ Geoff Dyer
My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego.
~ Geoff Dyer
Lord, this is an huge rayn!This were a weder for to slepen inne!
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
~ Georg Buchner
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
~ George Allen