"Rest and good moods are both essential for sustained and successful work."
–– Oliver Burkeman (b. 1975), British author and journalist
Source: Oliver Burkeman. Meditations for Mortals. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2024; p. 73.
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 43.
"I've always believed you need space to disengage in order to be creative."
–– Nate Berkus (b. 1971), American interior designer and TV host
Source: Caitlin Flemming and Julie Grebel. Sense of Place: Design Inspired by Where We Live." New York: Abrams, 2023; p. 85.
via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, 2025, p. 13.
"Downtime enables not only our creativity and our need for rest. It also enables the formation and maintenance of our deep sense of being and identity. ... Without downtime, we might not physically die, but we will die psychologically, emotionally, spiritually. In downtime, not only are we making sense of the events of the day, we are making sense of our lives."
–– Alan Lightman (b. 1948), American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur
Source: Alan Lightman. In Praise of Wasting Time. New York: TED Books, Simon and Schuster, 2018; p. 67-8.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 61.
"and he who finds no way to rest cannot long survive the battle."
–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist
via: Sketchbook 30, 2017, p. 40.
"It's almost impossible to keep success going because you have to stop at some point, to rest and learn something new. It's essential. People's interest in you goes away so quickly, but you have no choice but to step off the boat sometimes."
–– Judd Apatow (b. 1967), American comedian, director, producer and screenwriter
via: Sketchbook 27, 2015, p. 142.
"Throw everything out of your mind...read a little, sleep. The world will still be here when you wake up, and there'll still be everything left to do."
–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist
via: Nitch on Instagram, September 19, 2022
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
–– Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British journalist, essayist, political analyst, and economist
via: Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 35
