Julius Peppers Quotes

In 2015, I told my band that I was taking a break so I could focus on my home life, go back to school, and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human being again.

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

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

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

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.

I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

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

We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.

I think some of the best pieces of advice for me was when I talked to some of the great players who have had success in this league how much they emphasized the importance of rest, that you can't just go 100 miles an hour all 12 months of the year every day and just keep going. That is a recipe for burnout.

Sometimes I flashback and say, 'Wow I'm still doing this. Wow, it's crazy.' And I'm very thankful, but I think my body needs a rest.

I don't travel so much now, I get tired

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while

The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

I took a little celebrational nap.

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