Quotes About Time

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.