William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

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.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The way I balance life and skating is by enjoying the time I spend away from the rink. When I am not on the ice, I am not focusing on skating.

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

I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

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."

I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

I don't want to work all of the time.

I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

Like anyone else, I enjoy my days off.

What I'm doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like 'Game of Thrones.' Get that balance.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.

I'm certainly not a workaholic.

The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.

Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.

A busy man is someone who doesn't find 24 hours enough to do his work. But for me, even after I finish my work, I find a lot of time for myself.

Time off doesn't sit well with me.

I am not one of those people who want to work 24/7.