Francis Quarles Quotes

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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.

Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.

Resting for me is fitness training.

It feels like we have two threads running through our lives: one pulling us into the world to achieve, the other pulling us back to replenish us. These threads can seem at odds, but really, they enforce each other. It's not a trade-off between success and sleep.

I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. And then I also like to work nonstop, maybe for a year-and-a-half, and then take a year off.

If I'm going to play without any rest I might as well not play at all. I rest a lot but I work a lot too.

Each gig is brilliant and fun. When it becomes a routine, we'll take a break. There's no point in doing it if you don't enjoy it.

When it's time to recharge, I don't feel guilty about it.

A few years back, I had this urge to be on the go all the time. It's important to find a balance, though. Now my motto is, do the work, but recharge, too!

The times you have off are equally as important as the times you're working. You need to rebuild, fill up again.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

I'm a big believer in doing what you've got to do, but taking a breather when you can.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.