The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.
The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.
You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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 usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.
I think when you're done with work, you go home.
I have that balance of having fun - because I can need to have a ton of fun - but also locking it in at times.
I'm a very early riser on holiday. I am invariably down at the pool on a sun lounger even before anyone can put a towel on one.
I thought I'd finally get to relax with Dimitri.
There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.
When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.
My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.
My favorite thing about summer is just the idea of having a little time off to do things for you, whether that be going on a vacation, spending more time with your friends, or going to places you've never been before.
I don't watch much TV at all.
I love being home. I play with my dogs.
When I have a few weeks off, I catch up with my friends, but after a week or so, I just can't wait to get back in to the boxing club and start training.
Here it may be convenient ... to say something of recreation and home life. Both are sadly curtailed by office.
This is far too heavy a draft upon the energies of the workmen of any industry …. The working forces [should] have time for leisure … and family life.
It's quite nice to switch off and not see anything to do with cricket.
Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce crime as having extra police on the streets, and increasing the population of concert halls may actually help decrease the population of prisons.
I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.
I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.
When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.
