The pay is good and I can walk to work.

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

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Professional 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.

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

If you don’t let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

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.

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

I 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.

When 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.

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.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

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

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

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

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

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

I don’t do meetings.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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.‘

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.

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.

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.

The 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.

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.

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.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

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

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

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

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