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Quotes About Work

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
~ Al Franken
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.
~ Christian Bale
If everyone has the same amount of time and yet some earn more than others, can we say then say that it's how we use our time that determines the money we make?
~ Gary W. Keller
I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew up with my dream to pursue music full time.
~ Hoodie Allen
As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.
~ Lydia Sigourney
For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.
~ Keir Dullea
The only heaven permitted to me is the part-time job heaven.
~ Lee Eun-sang
I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.
~ Leonard Nimoy
A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering
~ Mare Winningham
Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
~ Michael Caine
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.
~ Patsy Kelly
Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.
~ Ovid
If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.
~ Sam Levenson
My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.
~ Steve Aoki
In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.
~ Terry Gilliam
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
~ Theodore Parker
My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.
~ Tyler Florence
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
~ Washington Irving
When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
~ Edward Abbey
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
~ Glenn Close