The pay is good and I can walk to work.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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

I 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.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

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.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

If you’re working for a good company and you’re happy there, and you’re being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

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.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

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

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I don’t do meetings.

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

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

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

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.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

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

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

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

If 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.

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

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

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

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

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

I love being busy.

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

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.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

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.

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.

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?‘

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

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

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

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.