Quotes About Work

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

The time for your labor has been granted.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.

I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.