Mel Brooks Quotes

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

My whole life is a vacation.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

You can't work all your life.

Personally, when I'm not working, I like to do as many things outside of the industry as I can - other things that make me happy. You kind of need to be grounded in something else besides just being an actor.

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Poorly planned and stressful vacations eliminate the positive benefit of time away. The less the stress, the more likely you will experience a positive benefit from the time off. A positive, well-managed vacation can make you happier and less stressed, and you can return with more energy at work and with more meaning in your life.

I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to.

I was happy working on my golf and doing a bit of fishing.

I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

I film so much and I'm working so much that when I do get even a Saturday or a Sunday off, I just literally watch movies or sleep or hang out with my close friends and relax.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.