Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Sunday is like this entertainment scrum for me, because I've only got a day, one day of fun. So I want to have brunch, and I want to see a movie, and I want to watch 'Game of Thrones,' and I'm trying to watch 'The Sopranos' from the beginning, and I want to play four hours of video games. So, it's, like, as regimented as my work life.

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

We live very busy lives. But everyone has a spare minute.

I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.

I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

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.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

Work hard, play hard.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

There's never enough time to do nothing!