Simon Armitage Quotes

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

I mainly buy books in my free time.

In college, everything's structured. In the NBA, it's like, you have a lot of free time, and you have to use it wisely. A lot of the time, you're in a hotel room all day. And rest is really the most important thing. Then, just trying to enjoy yourself and have fun.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

I wish I had more time to read.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

My teammates don't see it, but deep down I find it tough to sit there and not influence big games.

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

I read till I fall asleep. Daytime actually I feel guilty reading - I always feel I should be doing something else!

Blogging requires consistency, and you need to have some time on your hands, which I don't really have.

I don't want to let my family down; I don't want to let myself down. That's probably the biggest thing I fear.

I have a lot of expectations on myself. That's important.

I should not think that I have to win every match and what others will think; that will create extra pressure. I just have to give best on court.

I know some artists who write every day, and for a while, I felt really guilty that I didn't.

I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it's great. But I'm amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don't.

My expectations for myself were really high.

I've always expected a lot out of myself, and it can be a good quality. But it can be bad at times, too.

Free time is the enemy of progress

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.