Quotes About Rest

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.

I don't want to work all of the time.

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youÂ've made too much of it, to remember it doesnÂ't define you.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

I don't need to work.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.

I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock.

I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.