Michio Kaku Quotes

I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!

When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

I go to the movies a lot on off days. I exercise. I have routines that I go by.

It's very challenging to get the right balance between relaxing and working.

Some people meditate, I like doing my makeup. It very much relaxes me.

I always said to my wife, 'That's for sissies. Girls get facials.' The first time I tried it I said, 'Oh man, what the hell have I been missing all these years.' Let me tell you, I go in there for about an hour and a half, and the girl does my facial and also massages my neck and my arms.

Once in a while, I get a massage done at home but I'm not a spa junkie.

I just love switching stuff off and going for a run, or sitting down and eating cake.

I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out.

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

I'm not a prosecutor at home. I don't talk about my day, because nobody's interested. I might do something frivolous, like bead.

Massages and swimming are feel-good activities which are both mentally and physically relaxing.