Down Time Quotes

• There's no down time any more.

  Jeff Foxworthy

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• In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Running, Long

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  No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

  Henry Rollins

  Spare Time, Life Time, Spares

  Song: Shine

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• Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Creativity, Boredom

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.25, Random House

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• All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Athlete, Destiny, Artist

  "Author's Afterword". "Cordelia's Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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• Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

  Eric Clapton

  Song, Time, Knees

  Song: Tears in Heaven, Album: Unplugged, 1992

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• And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Literature, Stuff, Reason

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• There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

  Jeremy Renner

  Blessing, Boredom, Too Much

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• I really love having lots of down time with my kids.

  Molly Shannon

  Kids

  "Molly Shannon gets serious about 'Dog'". Interview with Associated Press, www.today.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

  Josh Lucas

  Travel, Alive, Littles

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• It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?

  Ali Larter

  Loyal, Cheat, Easier

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• We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

  Tom Stoppard

  Men, Bricks, Drowning

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Down time is not the name of the game.

  Usher

  Games, Names, Strivers

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• With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Athlete, Artistic, Kind

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• Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

  Daniel Goleman

  Routine, Scheduling, Hard

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• Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.

  Sean Mahon

  New York, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

  John Cariani

  Writing, Creative, Outlets

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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• Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Soccer, Stuff, Wanted

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• Too much down time makes us miss home.

  Glenn Tipton

  Home, Missing, Too Much

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• 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

  Writing, Shining, Lazy

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• Even though I worked hard at times, it was always magical. I have to confess I enjoyed every minute of it. Even the down times I enjoyed, because we were creating something that would make people smile and lift their hearts. You can't think of a better job than that.

  Floyd Norman

  Jobs, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids' dances. They were called "lead outs" for kids in high school. We played wherever we could - in the down time when you weren't recording, people had to make money.

  Donnie Fritts

  Party, School, Kids

  "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.

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• The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

  James Brown

  Brown, Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Years, Balance, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

  John Cariani

  Character, Actors, Character Actors

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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