Quotes About Time

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.

I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

My wife, Bojana, is a doctor; we both work intense hours and have months when we barely see each other. It isnt easy, but we realize nobody said it was supposed to be!

I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport.

I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press

Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.