I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

Sleep is the best meditation.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

I love the sea.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Never get out of bed before noon.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I like to take it easy.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I love being busy.