Holly Hunter Quotes

Doing regular things and not just working all the time, as much as I love the work I do, it's nice to take a break and really have perspective on things and go on road trips or go hiking or travel. It keeps me alive and curious.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.

I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

If I'm going to play without any rest I might as well not play at all. I rest a lot but I work a lot too.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

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.

Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.

I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.

I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

I work hard to get the body right, and then I kind of just go off the map when on vacation.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

You need balance in your life all-around. When you find that balance and relax and get away from the game a little bit - and when you come back, you just go that much harder.

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It's like in life, right? We're all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.

I always have days off before and after I go to the studio. That's really important for me that I know that I have days off after, 'cause then I can give my everything when I'm in the studio. I love being in the studio and being able to think, 'Okay, I'm not doing anything tomorrow.'

When it's time to recharge, I don't feel guilty about it.