Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."

Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.

Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

It is so important to me to have my time away from hockey. Obviously, hockey is my passion; I love it. But definitely for me, time away from the rink and time when my mind isn't thinking about hockey is important.

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

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.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

I have no time for a vacation.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.

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

As much as we adore what we do and we're eternally grateful, everyone needs a break sometimes. Everyone needs a few days just to breathe.

I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.