James Hilton Quotes

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

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

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

I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

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

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

I am in no rush to get anywhere.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

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.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

What I always look for is someone that really knew how to lean up against a bar, get a drink, sit on a barstool. When people are in bars they're relaxed. No real right angles - it's slow moves, it's slow conversations. You can tell a loud joke, but everyone's very relaxed. I never would pick somebody nervous or twitchy. If I found guys with beards, I'd ask them, don't trim the edges, don't go in and manicure yourself up. I always look for people that look like they're comfortable in their own skin, that wouldn't feel like it was the first time they were ever in a bar.

You can be effective in this world without stress.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

People of ze wurl, relax!

Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.