Quotes About Work

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

I like fashion because it's sort of my job, so I'm into it when I have to be. But when I'm not working, I wear jeans and T-shirts. I go to vintage stores all the time to find funky T-shirts.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Really try to find a job where it's fun to get up and get out the door, no matter what time.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Most of the time, I'm working in places I'm not familiar with. Sometimes it's Slovakia, and sometimes it's Hawaii. Not to bash on Slovakia, but I really did enjoy Hawaii.