Quotes About Work

People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

A couple of things have helped. One is that I dont travel any, that takes a lot of time from peoples schedules, if they travel, so I dont travel.

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

I'm actually filming all the time, and I don't have much time to do anything. I've always been that way.

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.