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

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.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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.

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

I don’t do meetings.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

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

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.

Some 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.

If 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.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

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.

My work and my family are very important to me.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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.

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

Mostly, 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.

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.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

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!

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.

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

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

I 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.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

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.

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.

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

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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.

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?‘

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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

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.

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.

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.

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

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.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

I love being busy.

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

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

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.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

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.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

If 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.