Antony Beevor Quotes

I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

I am such that person that, when I'm working, I'm like, 'Oh, what I wouldn't give for a weekend off!' And then, as soon as I have more that 18 hours without anything to do, I start shaking. It's really funny.

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 hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I work hard but I play hard.

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.

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

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

The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.

Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

My working day usually lasts from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., then two hours of viewing time for myself. It's like a religion.

I work in the studio all day, and then I go for a walk with my dog, listening to music on headphones. And Saturday and Sundays, work is strictly out of bounds. It has to be.

I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.

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.

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

If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.

I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it. I just want to finish what I'm doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

I’m actually taking advantage of my time off. You know, I had a film that was pushed, so I’m home spending time with my family, going to the gym and actually enjoying taking care of myself…This year has been great for me because I’ve learned how to relax. The last three years have been amazing but kind of crazy. So I don’t know, I feel grounded. I feel really good.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.