Quotes About Work

Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!

I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.

Weekends are a real luxury for me because I'm usually working.

I love the sitcom schedule. It takes a week to make an episode, but we don't work on weekends. I'm usually done in time to get home for dinner with my wife and daughter.

I always put a lot of priority on my education, even if that means taking classes after work or on the weekends.

If you want to spend weekends with your family, something's got to give.

I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.

I work on most weekends, so my husband is the executive chef. He is an amazing cook. I love the way he does salmon, and his apple pie for dessert is delicious.

I'll spend a couple of days in Paris, a couple back in London, some time at the factory in Italy... I like travelling, but it can be a struggle to get home for weekends.

I worked two jobs when I got pregnant. I was doing 'Greenleaf' on weekdays and doing 'Set It Off,' the play, on weekends.

In the wrestling industry and the entertainment industry, weekends you never have off.

A lot of the companies I work with, they're not returning my calls or emails on weekends. So weekends are weekends for Ultimate.

I can't travel every weekend. I like to spend some weekends at my studio.

After I left school at 16 I had three jobs: I worked in a ceramics factory, where I made toilet handles, I repaired cars for people and in the evenings and weekends I worked in a bar. I had to do them all to make ends meet.

I'm happy to be alive and to play any sport and, really, I wouldn't mind working for a living and playing at weekends.

We're with each other 24 hours a day. We film all week long. On weekends, we go on these tours. If we didn't have fun, it would be a problem.

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.

The day after my mom died I fly back to California and spend the three weeks before the California primary making arrangements for her cremation, planning and getting the house ready for a memorial service and covering political rallies in Southern California. The normalcy of work helps.

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.