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Quotes About Hours

Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I do not believe in work-life balance. I believe that if you view your work as a calling, it is a labor of love rather than laborious. When your work is a calling, you are not approaching the amount of hours you are working with a sense of dread or counting the minutes until the weekend. Your calling can become a life-affirming engagement that can provide its own balance and spiritual nourishment.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Si prestas un servicio, en este apartado aprenderás a transformar tus habilidades en una mercancía que se pueda enviar para escapar de las limitaciones que impone el modelo de ganancia por horas.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.
~ Timothy Griffin
I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
~ Gabriel Basso
The Lizards were extremely philosophical by nature, and often sat thinking for hours and hours together
~ Oscar Wilde
One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
One of the King Georges of England–I forget which–once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night–I cannot recall at the moment how many–made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It calls for sophisticated handling. We shall have to think this over. I've been thinking it over for hours. Yes, but you've got one of those cheap substitute brains which are never any good. It will be different when a man like me starts giving it the cream of his intellect.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
One of the King Georges of England, I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night—I cannot recall at the moment how many—made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory. Baxter agreed with him. It went against all his instincts to sit up in this fashion; but it was his duty and he did it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Geneva, Switzerland..i thought it was only two hours
~ Dan Brown
How do you suppose time works? A slippery succession of long hours adding up to ever-shorter days and years that disappear like falling dominoes?
~ Dani Shapiro
But these were thoughts of no weight, and whenever he came to me they vanished; for his company was so delightful, that there was no being melancholy when he was there; the reflections were all the subject of those hours when I was alone.
~ Daniel Defoe
A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!
~ Clive Barker
Characteristic of the overall difference between Boston and New York, the population at the Acropolis was far less forlorn. Its customers were just those who, for whatever reason, wanted to eat coffee-shop food at very strange hours.
~ Whit Stillman
Eternity is in love with the productions of time. The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.
~ William Blake
Mostly their troubles were minor ones, for they followed a healthy lifestyle, waking at sunrise to bathe in the river, then spending long hours in study or prayer, followed by daily chores, simple meals, storytelling
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Mary suppressed both a smile and a delightful suspicion that teaching might not be the worst way to spend the idle hours between breakfast and society.
~ Chris Cleave
The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.
~ Chris Gardner
But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.
~ Chris Moneymaker
Simon aurait détesté revoir Paris à 18 h 07. On a ses heures noires. Simon c'était six heures du soir.
~ Christian Gailly
EPIGRAPH "There was a very strange connection. One of those odd collisions that happen. We were a little alike; I was an unhealthy child that was kept at home. So there was an unsaid feeling between us that was wonderful, an utter naturalness. We'd sit for hours and not say a word, and then she'd say something, and I'd answer her. A reporter once asked her what we talked about. She said, 'Nothing foolish.'" —Andrew Wyeth
~ Christina Baker Kline