A Quote by Robert Harris

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Robert Harris

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Robert Harris
British - Novelist
Born: March 7, 1957

When you get into the entertainment business, you have to grow up a lot faster, because you're working nine and a half hours a day. I've learned time management at 14-years-old, and I've learned how to do all these different things that some people don't learn until they're in their 20s and 30s.

Lizzy Greene

I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later.

Lewis Black

When doctors tell you that your only hope for survival is 14 straight days of intense chemotherapy, 24 hours a day, you sit there, and you count down the 336 hours. You see, each day is a blessing.

Craig Sager

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Bobby Schilling

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

Grandmaster Flash

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Jostein Gaarder

You may work under incredible pressure over two hours in a day, but you're often around that studio 14 to 16 hours of that day.

Bill Irwin

I sleep 12 hours and then work 24 hours. I've worked those irregular hours for the past three years. It's better to stay up day and night to come up with ideas. I usually get inspiration for game designing by working this schedule.

Satoshi Tajiri

Like growing up, I felt that Michael Jackson would dance for all the hours that god gave in a day!

Jitendra Kumar

Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.

Rick Riordan

I would love to coach and teach people about football. It's just that the time constraints are so tough to coach, especially when you have seven kids and they are growing up. I'm just in too blessed of a situation to spend from five in the morning until 12 at night coaching and not watching my kids grow up.

Kurt Warner

I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.

Teresa Palmer

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.