Ernest Hello Quotes

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

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

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

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.

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

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.

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

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

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.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

I think everyone's dream is to do nothing.

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!

From labor there shall come forth rest.

Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

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