A Quote by David Riesman

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

David Riesman

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Bankers Car Day Five Hours Masses Modern Product Suburb Week

Quote Author

David Riesman
American - Sociologist
September 22, 1909 - May 10, 2002

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

Heston Blumenthal

It's much better to play the guitar a half hour a day, every day, than not practice for a week and then jam for five hours one day.

John Petrucci

I was out on the shooting range twice a week [for Skyfall]. I worked out with a personal trainer for two hours a day, five days a week. So, it was quite demanding!

Naomie Harris

You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.

Tom Bosley

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

Nigel Farage

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

Patricia Highsmith

I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?

Joel Salatin

I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.

Stephen R. George

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

Jason Reynolds

I work out one-and-a-half hours a day, five times a week to strengthen my muscles and increase tone.

Ananya Birla

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

James Patterson

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

Wladimir Klitschko

I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.

Gillian Flynn

I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up on a bad day. If you're working fourteen hours on a set and you need to eat five protein bars, then you just do that. I keep it a regular and normal part of my life as [much as] I can.

Rhea Seehorn

So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.