Josh Radnor Quotes

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.

The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn't be squandered.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

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.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.

It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.

Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

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

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

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

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

It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.

There's something fun about the road because there's no 9 to 5. But I do find myself making the effort to take some time off. As much as I don't want to, I have to. I need to reset. I love weeks off, because I can go in the studio and just be creative again.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.