Anthony Bourdain Quotes

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

I say I want a break, but every time I have some down time, I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be doing something.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Killing time is not an easy job.

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

I have a hard time with free time.

The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.

I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

I'm not good when idle.

If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

I don't like idle time.

I would probably lose my mind if I wasn't busy. There's only so many video games I can play.

We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day.

Free time is the enemy of progress

I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.