Taapsee Pannu Quotes

You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

Sleep is the gasoline that keeps me going.

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.

Work is important, but you also need to disconnect, to unplug at times, in order to be even more concentrated when you do work.

That desire and drive to keep going are crucial things to have, and time off gave that to me.

It is important to take short breaks for the best use of your creative talents.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.

Sleep is my best friend... A friend that helps you dream, relaxes, recharges, and is there at the end of every day!

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.

You always feel pretty good after a bye, after a couple of days off. Not having a game, you freshen up a little.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

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.

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

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

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've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.