Matt Mullenweg Quotes

I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.

Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

I'm constantly taking calls and responding to e-mails at home, and I find it best to have that little work space. And then when you're not at that little space, it's not work anymore.

Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No!

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

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

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

I think it's important to relax in general. I don't try to save up my relaxing for one month period of the year; it's kind of a daily practice that I've tried to remain aware of.

I don't have the answer to finding the balance because I think, well, maybe successful people don't switch off.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

Just because our work environment is crazy doesn't mean we need to bring the craziness home.

When I'm home, I never take work calls. If I'm at work, I work; if I'm home that's it, I'm home.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

If you didn't relax away from your work, you'd tear your hair out in the middle of the night worrying about the next game when it's only a Monday and you're not playing until Saturday.

I don't look at my emails on the weekend or after 6 o'clock in the day.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.