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 love being busy.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

Every 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.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

When 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.

Most 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.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

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.

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.

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

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

First 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.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

In 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.

We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.

I 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.‘

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

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

There 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.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

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

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.‘

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

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.

In 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.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

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

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

Discipline 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.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

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

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.

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.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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

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

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

‚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.

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.

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

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.

For 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.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

I 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.

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 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.

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

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

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

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.

Never get out of bed before noon.

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.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!