Sarah Dessen Quotes

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

Being less stressed doesn't mean that you stop doing things.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

I like to work hard and play hard.

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.

I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.

I work too hard and don't play enough.

I think I am disciplined when I need to be, and relax when I can.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

I'm certainly not a workaholic.

Time off doesn't sit well with me.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

One needs to follow strict discipline in the life to streamline it, so it's not whether you are in this industry/profession of an actor or an engineer or whatever you are doing it, but I think when you respect your body, when you take care of your body, I think everything falls in place.

I have to make sure I study and do my job.

Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right."

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

Work first, and then rest.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.