Quotes About Rest

Psychological detachment from work, in addition to physical detachment, is crucial

elite performers have something in common: They're really good at taking breaks

High performers, its research concludes, work for fifty-two minutes and then break for seventeen minutes.

coffee, followed by a nap of ten to twenty minutes, is the ideal technique

Breaks are not a sign of sloth but a sign of strength

frequent short breaks are more effective than occasional ones

take meaningful restorative breaks

An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.

The Power of Breaks, the Promise of Lunch, and the Case for a Modern Siesta

continuing to think about job demands during breaks may result in strain.

Social breaks are effective

Breaks and recess are not deviations from learning. They are part of learning.

Select one day a week and remove yourself from the maw. Stop working. Don't answer your email. Ignore your voice mail. Turn off your mobile phone. Most Western religions have established a Sabbath—the seventh day of the week—as a time of peace, reflection, and prayer.

What time do you usually go to sleep? What time do you usually wake up? What is the middle of those two times—that is, what is your midpoint of sleep?

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

secrets of a perfect nap.

That means that people who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it. Daydreaming

neuroscientists have recently discovered that parts of the brain can fall asleep for a few moments or longer without our realizing it. At any given moment, some circuits in the brain may be off-line, slumbering, recouping energy, and as long as we're not calling on them to do something for us, we don't notice.

When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.

Laziness can be virtuous in the right setting, I guess.

Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.

Once they were beyond hearing, Miss Darling said, "The upstairs is rather boring. It's only bedchambers." "I've never found bedchambers to be boring.

I am tired, I am weary. I could sleep for a thousand years, a thousand dreams that would awake me. Different colors made of tears. The Velvet Underground, from "Venus In Furs," The Velvet Underground & Nico. Produced by Andy Warhol (Verve, 1967)

You know you're getting older when the first thing you do after you're done eating is look for a place to lie down.