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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it. -- Anthony Trollope
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. -- Charles Evans Hughes
Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal -- Esther Hicks
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. -- Thomas A. Edison
Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day! -- Bill Haywood
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. -- Theophile Gautier
So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long. -- Samuel Gompers
VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become much more creative. -- Dan Bricklin
This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood. -- John R. Commons
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously. -- Agnes de Mille
With the rather stable ratio of labor force to total population, a high rate of increase in per capita product means a high rate of increase in product per worker; and, with average hours of work declining, it means still higher growth rates in product per man-hour. -- Simon Kuznets
The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
I wasn't a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do it. Some kids, it clicks for them, and it doesn't work out. But thank God for me it did work out. I put in all those hard hours of work, and it has gotten me to where I am. -- Robert Griffin III
Every hour of useful work is precious. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work. -- Jessica Savitch
Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. -- Roger Staubach
If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness! -- Joel Edgerton
I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it. -- Jeff Beck
Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none. -- Kathryn Minshew
I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work. -- Jeff Bridges
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. -- Roger Staubach
I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding. -- Richard King
Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience. -- Tom Rath
The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life. -- Ben Shapiro
Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience. -- Gustav Krupp
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work. -- George Kennedy
I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours. -- Deborah Eisenberg
You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired. -- Zach Galifianakis
When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break. -- Amy Ray
How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour. -- Emily Oster
Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again. -- Peter Sarsgaard
Think 8 hours, work 2 hours. -- Mirko Ilic
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day. -- Dave Pelzer
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day, -- Dave Pelzer
Hours of research can cut months of field work. -- E. Lee Spence
Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work. -- Seth Godin
Within the 24 hours, make some time for your own work. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day. -- John Langdon-Davies
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. -- Henry Cavill
I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football. -- Graham Roberts
I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me. -- Taylor Momsen
Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day. -- Heston Blumenthal
I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours. -- Brandon Sanderson
You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young -- Susa Young Gates
I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. -- Armand Hammer
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done. -- Sidney Hillman
Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours. -- Jaime King
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. -- Adam Baldwin
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week. -- Lori Greiner
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -- Jerome K. Jerome
I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. -- Janeane Garofalo
I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working. -- Victoria Justice
Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours. -- Monty Woolley
People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week. -- Warren Farrell
I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day. -- Marguerite Moreau
I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work. -- Daniela Bobadilla
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you. -- Mark Cuban
My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes. -- Maureen Lipman
I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years. -- Mindy Kaling
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one. -- Martin Luther
Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours. -- Kemmons Wilson
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan. -- Lev Grossman
In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process. -- Emma Watson
I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off. -- Shawn Johnson
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours. -- T. Boone Pickens
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together. -- Chuck Jones
If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours. -- Mark Batterson
It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards. -- Jon Michaelsen
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. -- Sam Ewing
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m. -- Lena Dunham
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance. -- Cesar Chavez
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance -- Cesar Chavez
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. -- Robert Frost
With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment. -- Joe Scarborough
I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours. -- Kemmons Wilson
Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again. -- Catherine Bell
I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do. -- David Ogilvy
I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later. -- Lewis Black
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible. -- Richard Powers
I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering. -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed! -- Jimmy Durante
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing. -- Dave Eggers
Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded -- Giuseppe Levi
You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality! -- Dave Ramsey
I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow. -- Grimes
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? -- Jay Samit
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets. -- John Wayne
I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210. -- Jennie Garth
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. -- Julia Child
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. -- Doug Larson
You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family. -- Kim Raver
I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family. -- Ansel Elgort
To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours. -- Don Shula
They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise. -- Bryan Brown
You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily. -- Sergei Bubka
I worked in Toronto for two days. And by work I mean sit in a trailer for 15 hours, say two lines, and leave. -- Daniel Tosh
I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.' -- Jennie Garth
You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work. -- Frank Zappa
I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it. -- Gabriela Sabatini
So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didnâ??t complain. It was normal. -- Bernhard Langer
I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable. -- Scott Adams
My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world. -- Guy Kawasaki
There's this idea that everybody has to have everything right away... I wasn't the superstar. I had to work really long hours for it. -- Jenna Lyons
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience. -- Howard Stern
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio. -- Henry Cavill
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony. -- Charles Fletcher Dole
I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day. -- Alia Shawkat
I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction. -- Rachael Yamagata
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week. -- Mae Jemison
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause! -- John C. Maxwell
Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time. -- John Steinbeck
Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether. -- Charles Kennedy
I try to work out daily in the morning hours. This drives up energy levels dramatically. You'll feel more inspired. And you'll need less sleep. -- Robin S. Sharma
Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery. -- Andrew Bird
When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours. -- Sandra Cisneros

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