Idle Time Quotes

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

I say I want a break, but every time I have some down time, I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be doing something.

I'm super active, so sitting on the couch and staring at the walls isn't ideal for me.

I'm not good at vacationing. I've repeatedly failed at palapas and mai-tais.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

You turn down work you feel you've already done.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

When I'm on a set, and I'm in between a scene or on a plane waiting, I read Twitter and I love it.

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.

I want a job where I work for eight months, then do nothing for four.

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

I've never been very fully employed either.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

I don't like idle time.

What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!

I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.

A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

When I was a boy, my father used to criticize me for - it's hard to translate - I guess you could say 'mindless time.' Thinking what to do. I need to be bored so I can be pushed into doing something.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.