Down Time Quotes - Page 2

Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.

Deepak Chopra

Listening, Pay, Way

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I took a complete year off the road, but a big part of that year was making 'The Big Revival.' I needed that down time just so I could concentrate. The one thing that starts it all for us is the music. That's what you create in the studio. That's where the magic happens.

Kenny Chesney

Years, Magic, Revival

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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Comedy shows in D.C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people need, they need their down time. D.C. audiences are almost universally praised by comedians.

Joe Rogan

Fun, Thinking, People

Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

Horace Panter

Moments

Source: louderthanwar.com

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I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that.

Paul Giamatti

Jobs, Lazy, Mind

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Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.

Tana French

Real, Coffee, Believe

Tana French (2014). “The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5”, p.186, Hachette UK

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I tied down time with a rope
but it came back.
Then
I put my head in a death bowl
and my eyes shut up like clams.
They didn't come back.

Anne Sexton

Time, Eye, Rope

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It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

J. K. Rowling

Time, Giving, Potters

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It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon. Opal tapped this into her notepad. Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable?

Eoin Colfer

Team, Moon, Tunnels

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Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

Paul Stanley

Kissing, Careers, Band

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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

Iain Glen

Giving, Trying, Energy

"Iain Glen: 'I've never been so wired'" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2010.

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I write in the mornings. During my down time.

Stanley Tucci

Morning, Writing

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I'm afraid if I don't keep moving, they're going to catch me ... I am 81 years old and I want to see what's around the corner, and I don't see any reason in the world not to keep working. But I am starting to value my down time a great deal because I am realizing there might be other things to do that I am overlooking.

Leslie Nielsen

Moving, Years, World

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With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

Tori Spelling

Writing, Kids, Naps

"Tori Spelling to enter 'unchartered territory' by writing a third book". www.mtv.com. January 7, 2010.

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I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!

Shawn Johnson

Sleep, Want, These Days

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You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

Don Nelson

Mean, Coaching, Tears

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There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

Dave Lombardo

Enjoy

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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

Kate Voegele

Song, Writing, Busy

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I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

David Morrissey

Panic, Starting, Projects

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People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.

Julie Mehretu

Thinking, Two, People

"Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.

Jerry Saltz

Bottles, Four, Littles

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