Quotes About Work

I've been travelling around moving from one movie set to another... it's been back-breaking, but am not complaining.

I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

I'm always busy with work and travelling.

You can't afford to be lazy in this business, and in the past I've used all the travelling and the hotels as an excuse not to stick to exercise regimes and looking after myself.

I love my job but there is a lot of travelling involved.

As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.

I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much.

As someone who works and travels as much, you could feel... A bit rootless?

I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.

I live a very straight forward life and my job is public, my life isn't. That's a very clear delineation I've made from the beginning and will always tread that line.

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

If I'm on set and there's no other option, I get on a treadmill, but that's my most hated thing.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning.

I treat my acting career with a lot of respect.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect.

Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.

I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.