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Quotes About Downtime

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!
~ Ace Antonio Hall
You have probably learned to take downtime when you need it, which is more often than others do, and avoid overstimulating environments, but only people close to you see this side of you.
~ Elaine N. Aron
I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.
~ Kevin Harvick
There's a lot of downtime when we're not on stage leading up to the gigs.
~ Jeff Gutt
I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.
~ Wentworth Miller
Even a small amount of unplanned downtime can effect a company's profitability and reputation.
~ Ratmir Timashev, CEO Veeam
I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social.
~ Jhene Aiko
Stay working. Stay busy. It should be motivation instead of down time because down time is like being depressed. It shouldn't be like that. It should really be motivation to keep going.
~ Lil Durk
The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.
~ Sinead O'Connor
A plant in which everyone is working all the time is very inefficient.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
You gotta really enjoy off days.
~ C. J. McCollum
What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!
~ George Carlin
passing the time without any labor of intelligence
~ George Eliot
In any other context, 'icing' is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus - a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee's raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.
~ Steve Rushin
On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.
~ D. B. Sweeney
I write in the mornings. During my down time.
~ Stanley Tucci
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
~ Jeremy Renner
I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.
~ Cameron Monaghan
There were none of the card games marines usually played in downtimes. They were too tired to concentrate, and poker was serious business.
~ Mark Bowden
Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.
~ Henry Rollins
Do something completely unrelated to your goals, and feel good about it. We all need rest, recreation, and a reminder that there is more to life than pursuing our goals.
~ Dembe Michael
This year, I had some downtime before my Australia tour and spent a week or so in Phuket, Thailand. As a confessed workaholic, sometimes it's good to unplug and detach and honestly, the scenery, the weather and the people truly made this an incredible place for me to recharge.
~ Erick Morillo
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
My job has me traveling all the time, and I got this house, so my downtime is spent sort of making a home. Every year it's different, and I try to do things that are more fulfilling.
~ Luke Grimes