John Wanamaker Quotes

For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a manicure, getting a pedicure, getting my workout in, making sure that I ate healthy. Those things can become treacherous to the mind.

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.

With such a rigorous schedule, it's important that I do everything I can to maintain my health and wellness.

Work is important, but so is my health.

I feel that exercise really balances me. Then I layer on the other obligations that I have.

Like most women, I work too hard, spend too many hours hunched over a computer, and not enough time taking care of myself.

It's tough to find time to get rest.

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.

Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise

Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.

Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

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.

When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.

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

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

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

Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.