I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

When you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

I like to work.

I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I love being busy.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

My work and my family are very important to me.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.