I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
Taylor SwiftIf 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.
Noam ChomskyI don’t do meetings.
Karl LagerfeldWork ends up dehumanizing people.
Pope FrancisI’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.
Billie EilishI’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
Gordon RamsayEvery man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William JamesSurround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin PowellI have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingWhen you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.
Abby Lee MillerI just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan QuayleIn my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.
Angelina JolieI love being busy.
Dolly PartonA mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.
Barack Obama‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
Thich Nhat HanhI do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.
Lou HoltzIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn MonroeI don’t ever make moves under pressure.
Nipsey HussleI have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe 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.
Stephen CoveyIf I panic, everyone else panics.
Kobe BryantWhen I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘
Jackie ChanThe pay is good and I can walk to work.
John F. KennedyMy work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingIf you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
Noam ChomskyWhat keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.
Paul AusterAs a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Dalai LamaIn one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher HitchensIn 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.
John RuskinI do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry FordA man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt DisneyThe challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen CoveyI notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
Angelina JolieThe thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
Robert KiyosakiIf 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.
Jocko WillinkI feel exhausted if I teach too long.
Dalai LamaI like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.
Tom BradyI 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.
Richard BransonWorrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Will RogersWhy 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.
Florence NightingaleA lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.
Jocko WillinkYou might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.
Conor McGregorIn any profession it gets to be a grind.
Denzel WashingtonThroughout 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.
Michelle ObamaWhen you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.
Amy WinehouseI like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.
Matthew McConaugheyA lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.
Joyce MeyerI’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.
Angelina JolieBig pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon HillMore and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
Pope Francis‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.
Dolly PartonI’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.
Jim CarreyHave fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.
Colin PowellI 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.
Angelina JolieOne cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul SartreLike every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous HuxleyWhen I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.
Paul AusterDrag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain