If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.
I have to be at work every day at six in the morning and then cover premieres and parties that go late into the night, so a 12-hour workday is the norm.
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.
I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.
I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
For every game we play, I might have spent 12 hours working on the video alone. In an hour, the players have to understand everything you have seen in 12 hours.
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.
I did a corporate gig where I presented on stage for an hour and was paid 12,000. I felt so guilty. It is still hard for me to accept I can earn that sort of money for an hour of my time.
Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.
You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.
I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.
Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.
Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.
When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.