Quotes About Workload

I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.

The majority of people who claim to be overworked work less than they think they do, and many of the ways people work are extraordinarily inefficient. Calling something "work" does not make it important or necessary.

the reality is that the best outsourcing is not about getting rid of work you don't want to do. If it's truly dumb work, maybe it doesn't have to be done at all. Maybe processes can be automated.

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.

Working over 21 hours in a stretch increases the odds of you making a catastrophic error just as much as being legally drunk.

ten times a day. I was shorthanded, so it wasn't

The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.

It's never me saying, 'When is my day over?' It's more, 'When do they legally have to get me off of the lot, based on when I have to be back the next day?' The first call is a big thing in the acting world and in the union world. There needs to be a 12 hour period, and I need it.

The process of working with the second unit director and basically sharing your workload with another director is such an interesting, delicate thing - and entrusting that person with your vision and making sure that you are not adding a completely different aesthetic to the mix that you don't have to contend with in editing.

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.

I don't work all day, every day on 'Rizzoli & Isles,' but I work every day. It may be a scene or two, or it may be an enormous workload, but there's really not a lot of room for anything else, and that's the choice I made. And that's why I stayed away from TV before: Because I know that that's what it is.

I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

The work pressure in a daily is much. There is no time to etch out characters.

I've done two shows every day for years, but I don't think I could work on just one show a week. I would go crazy, and I would drive everybody nuts. I've got to feel like I'm under pressure.

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Don't you know I am just as busy as you are – or, at least, I like to think I am.

It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a history, a set of problems. Each, for better or worse, was anchored to a family.

In a purposeful organization run by good people, there's always more useful work than can be done in an eight-hour workday

Edwards continues by arguing that all this automation has not reduced the workload of the pilot a great deal; instead, it has increased the operational effectiveness of the system.