A Quote by Agatha Christie

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

Agatha Christie

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His Hours Important Leisure Make Man Mistake Working

Quote Author

Agatha Christie
English - Writer
September 15, 1890 - January 12, 1976

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

Marilynne Robinson

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

William J. H. Boetcker

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

Henry Latham Doherty

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Edna Ferber

Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

Ha-Joon Chang

Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.

B. C. Forbes

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

William Faulkner

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

William Ralph Inge

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

William Taylor

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

Katharine Anthony

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

Victor Hugo

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

George Eastman

Even if I am working 12 hours a day, I want to be working, not sitting in my room for eight hours waiting for my shot.

Poonam Dhillon

I don't mind working long hours, because I enjoy doing that. The way to make myself happy is to work long hours.

Eric Yuan

A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.