Gene Kelly Quotes

I can't relax. I don't have any hobbies.

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

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.

We all need to relax more, but I don't find it easy.

I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

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 have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

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

The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

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.

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

It's very challenging to get the right balance between relaxing and working.

If you start giving too much importance to pressure, you won't be in the present.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

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

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.

I just can't relax. That's my problem.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

Life is stressful.

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.