I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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.

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.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

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.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

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

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

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

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

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

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

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

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.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

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.