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.
Angelina JolieThroughout 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 ObamaBecause 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.
Tom BradyThe one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
Neil ArmstrongI 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.
Kurt VonnegutI like to work.
Abby Lee MillerHave 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 don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.
Kanye WestA man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt DisneyI 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!‘
Christopher HitchensIf 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 ChomskyBy working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert FrostIn 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 TzuI have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I’m very good at it.
Conor McGregorWhen 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’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.
Billie EilishI 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.
Tom BradyNo matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald ReaganThere’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.
Tom BradyThe 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.
Robert FrostMy work and my family are very important to me.
Stephen HawkingI love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.
Beyonce KnowlesI 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 BransonIf you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn MonroeIn 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 HitchensSome 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 CarlinThere is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco ChanelMore and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
Pope FrancisPeople rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale CarnegieWork is making a living out of being bored.
Karl LagerfeldI just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.
Mark ZuckerbergIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf 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 WillinkWhenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘
Dr. SeussActing is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
Denzel WashingtonCreative 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.
Jim CarreyI just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan QuayleTogether with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Pope FrancisFind a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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.
Gordon RamsayMy folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
John WayneMostly, 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.
Amelia EarhartI’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
Karl LagerfeldProfessional 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.
Dolores HuertaI 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 JolieA 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 ObamaI always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.
Richard BransonBig pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon HillI read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.
Adam SandlerI 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.
Nelson MandelaI 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.
Russell M. NelsonIt 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 WrightI don’t do meetings.
Karl LagerfeldWhen I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘
Jackie ChanI’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.
Anthony BourdainBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SocratesIf 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.‘
Jordan PetersonLittle by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.
Sunil ChhetriI’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 CarreyI get very little sleep when the court is sitting.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg