Top 1200 Working Long Hours Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I realized that I am not meant to relax all the time. I have gotten into the system of working for 12 hours.

To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don't think you can do the work - the five or six hours of working out a day - if you don't have a clear goal or know why you're doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible.

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.

What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to spend time with your kids, you don't get a chance to take a vacation every now and then, you don't get a chance to make a big purchase (which helps the economy). There's something wrong with that. This isn't about wages, this about quality of life.

I do about two hours working out in the morning with my trainer. It's like brushing my teeth.

When you are not working in TV and primarily doing film, you're working with one director for a long period of time, so getting to work with 12 different directors in the span of six months is incredible.

After working so long on something like this, it's great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn't just working in a cave by myself for no reason...

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

We play anywhere around two, 2 hours, so we're always in shape, but you've got to get yourself in super shape so you can sing that long, play that long, and feel strong.

Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

My working day usually lasts from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., then two hours of viewing time for myself. It's like a religion.

When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.

When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn't have any time for my family.

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

I was always the 'boring' type. I was into the stats and spending hours and hours and hours studying them. I was always more a manager than a player.

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

I was a cardio bunny and spent hours in the gym a day working up a sweat.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate.

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.

When you are working on a movie, you have to ensure that the journey of characters ends in two hours.

I just like to write. You can't play basketball 16 hours a day, so it's just working out, working on your body, take a nap, watch some TV, watch some games, and write.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

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

When you fulfil your dreams you don't count the hours of working. You just enjoy what you're doing.

Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

I track some long hours.

The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

The working hours are easy in films, while there is always an anxiety on television. So the energies are very different.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.

I was unemployed for a long time, but I couldn't adjust to the hours.

I like to say I've been working on big data for so long, it used to be small data when I started working on it.

When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.

Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.

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

I had found my niche working in a trade I love with reasonable hours.

I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.

It can be very thrilling being able to witness Viola Davis do her thing for hours and hours, but there are also no windows, and you're just in a room for fourteen hours trying to keep it together.

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.

There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.

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

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

Even when I was working at The Village Voice, I only put in about 20 hours at the office.

We work long hours during elections.

Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that. It's all nonsense. The whole pop-star side of it is all fun and good, but you don't get anywhere without putting in the hours. I get so fulfilled when we play a song live that we spent hours working on. It's all cool. Fame is something to have fun with, but you shouldn't take it too seriously because it is bollocks.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

The hardest part is the nature of working in film and television; the hours are very tough.

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.