Martin Sorrell Quotes

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

I don't really watch TV. I don't have time.

I don't even watch my own fights. If it's not someone from my team or someone I like, I guarantee you that I'll go to the movies with my family instead.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

[Formula One] is entertainment and it competes with other entertainments - and not with other racing formats. It competes with people's time on a weekend. So you have to deliver.

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Do people on food stamps actually need more movies to watch? Well, I'm probably treading dangerously close to the line of insensitivity, right?

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

Everybody's vying for people's attention in terms of eyeballs, earholes, and dollars.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

Every action project you take, whether it be a movie or TV series, is always different and a lot of people don't really know how big a difference it is. It's a different style of fighting, a different tempo and all of that.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

My days are so busy with school and football, it's not often that I get out, anyway. But when I do, I like to meet people.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.