Unstructured Time Quotes

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

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.

When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

But, without a doubt, my favourite thing? It's sitting in a change room like this after a match. There's no time frame on how long you'll sit there. There's no formality. You're just enjoying each other's company, thinking about cricket.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

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 remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

I don't have a daily routine at all.

When not working, my days are lazy.

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.

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

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is stick my hair in a ponytail and put on a big sweater, some tights and a pair of sneakers after a week working in the city.

On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.

The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.

One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I'm not on any particular kind of clock.

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.