People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
Aldous HuxleyIt’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?
Jocko WillinkBig pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon HillI 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.
John D. RockefellerIf 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.
Jocko WillinkIf you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn MonroeI love being busy.
Dolly PartonI have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David ThoreauWhen I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
Lady GagaAll men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David ThoreauThe 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 CoveyModeration is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
Jimmy BuffettWhen I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
Adam SandlerWhen 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 WinehouseFor me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.
Dwayne JohnsonHe who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan ThomasFind a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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.
Stephen CurryI 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.
Lady GagaI 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 man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt DisneyPeople who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.
Kamala HarrisWhat nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
Anthony BourdainArt was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
David BowieWhen 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.
Michelle ObamaSome 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.
George CarlinDiscipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.
Jocko WillinkWhen I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘
Steven WrightStarting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
Elon MuskIf 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 wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘
Jim CarreyHardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
PlatoWhen I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
Bill GatesI 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 man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘
Will RogersWhy should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.
Karl LagerfeldI get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.
Haruki MurakamiI 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.
Angelina JolieIn dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao TzuFirst thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.
Dolly PartonI love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.
Dave GrohlThe one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
Neil ArmstrongWhen I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
Ernest Hemingway‚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 PartonIn 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 RuskinMy work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingThere is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.
Jocko WillinkI keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.
Maya AngelouI 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 JolieWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus AureliusI have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingIt is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.
Eleanor RooseveltThe thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
Robert KiyosakiI think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
Joel OsteenWe use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.
Brene BrownIt 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?‘
Steven WrightMost people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
Haruki MurakamiWhen 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.
Gordon RamsayWhen I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.
Paul AusterI’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 Jolie