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Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.
When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.
We are living in times that demand more and more of our brains and muscles, of our nerves and physical energy. Only those who are strong and know how to keep it so, can stand the wear and tear. It pays to stop once in a while to look over our machinery and oil the parts that need it.
We need time so to can explain the stuff in easy way.
If the power goes out, business stops ... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.
They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon.
Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
They've got to have backups on the cloud, or the mist, or whatever it's called.
The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.
Taking a dump...blackout
The more downtime we have, the more time you have to play games like 'Ghost Recon Future Soldiers,' so for me it's a fun way to get integrated into video games and for me to have fun with my buddies and team up and go into battle with 'em, kind of like out there on court.
When you become maintenance focused and maintenance driven, it becomes all about the things you have GOT to do and it is no longer about the things you GET to do.
Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.
No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.
A short absence is the safest.
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.
You are supposed to be ON. By ON I mean doing your very best work always. Operating at a level where you are dangerously good and exceptionally creative.
If you don't appear
at all one day they think you're lazy
or dead.
Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow
Parish, get back into position!' Max warned. 'Do not go in there. I repeat, do not go in there.' 'We lose him now, we lose him for good,' Caitlin declared. 'And I am not going to let that happen.' 'You have insufficient backup. I repeat: insufficient backup.
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.
A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
Relax, Recharge,
Renew, Restored.
A tardiness in nature,
Which often leaves the history unspoke,
That it intends to do.
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
Wondering how it was that one person's absence could rob the day so wholly of its shape and meaning.
The system might be breaking down but something else is breaking through.
I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.
When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.
It's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.
Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.
Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'
Yeah, don't you take a break?'
'I don't have time for breaks.'
'That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Time is our biggest asset..
We can count the minutes or make the minutes count..
All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning.
I had some downtime with my career and ... I got complacent.
Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.
We have to schedule time to be unscheduled.
We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.
When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.
Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.
When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
Preparing for the ups and downs of life.
procrastination,
Plans fall apart and time moves on.
If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
In my down time, I'm a homebody. I like to do a walkabout. I like my alone time.
Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!
Time away from work makes work better.
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.
We were supposed to have tonight and tomorrow, and many weeks and months, but we didn't have even another minute.
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.
All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.
Everything needs a break.
No matter what job you have, even when it's one you love, it's important to take some time away, both mentally and physically, to regroup, refresh and regain good, positive energy.
Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.
The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.
Do not suffer interim losses, relish and appreciate them
Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
world for a couple of days.
It takes time to save time.
Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,
that it looks like up to me.
Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.
I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.
Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear.
It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.
Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.
Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.
Nothing lasts until it is incessantly renewed
Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.
Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
Sometimes you need time away to sort things out in your head. It makes everything clearer.
Time plays for the other team.
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Postponement: The father of failure.
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.
When you lose your timing it is simply because you aren't present.
Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.
Life and Death took a break,
weary from their burdensome role.
Nobody lived or died that day.
What has not wasting time impaired?
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.
With nothing causing it.
When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling.
That's part of the 'MyMusic' idea: things that work online are the things that don't stop. If you go off the air for a long time, there's a concern about losing certain fans and momentum.
Idle time is the devil's play.
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.