Jamie Hince Quotes

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

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

You need balance in your life all-around. When you find that balance and relax and get away from the game a little bit - and when you come back, you just go that much harder.

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It's like in life, right? We're all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.

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

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

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

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

Resting for me is fitness training.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

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

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.