Top 100 Quotes About Much Work
#1. Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
Robert Jordan
#2. Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.
Manolo Blahnik
#3. I'm obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you've done everything that you could do to accomplish your work
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#4. I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.
Nathan Fillion
#5. If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ...
It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#6. Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.
Hilary Mantel
#7. Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen
#8. Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.
Tracy McMillan
#9. Theatrical work means too much work or none.
Alec-Tweedie
#11. I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.
Devon Sawa
#12. There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
Peter Cushing
#13. I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But I think getting everyone together on something that appeals to me and developing the material is something that I like to do.
Patrick Dempsey
#14. It seemed like way too much work, cleaning up my grief.
Jennifer Brown
#15. I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.
Russell Crowe
#16. The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days. Overtime is a wash.
Tom DeMarco
#17. 41 Mishnah Avot 3.23. 4 The compilation of the Talmud Rabbi Tarfon said, The day is short and there is much work, the workman are lazy but the wages are high, and the master of the house is pressing.1 The academies in Babylon
Harry Freedman
#18. It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.
Susane Colasanti
#19. I'm not saying therapy is bad, it's just too much work for me. I'm more about embracing my broken self for all that she can be.
Donna Augustine
#21. It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
Ann Patchett
#22. I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
John Krasinski
#23. My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.
Renee Fleming
#24. I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and
spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else.
Bear Bryant
#25. Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
Walter Annenberg
#26. I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Sylvester Stallone
#27. It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.
Stephen Sondheim
#28. I just find it really shitty that someone who never really produced anything, musically speaking, can just say, "I don't really like it." It just sucks because you put so much work into a record and someone disapproves."
Charlie Benante
#29. If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal. When, on the other hand, you have nothing to do, getting out of bed and washing yourself before 2:00 P.M. feels like too much work to even contemplate.
Chris Baty
#30. It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.
Prince Philip
#31. I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
Martin Luther
#33. Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Sean Lennon
#34. I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life ... I dream too much, work too little.
Sylvia Plath
#35. Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.
Dweezil Zappa
#36. Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
Eric Allman
#37. Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
Carine Roitfeld
#38. I think, ultimately you know in your heart how much work you've done. You know what you're doing, if you're being honest on stage or not. That's all you being you. But when you acknowledges it - especially with a Tony Award nomination - you just can't help with the guilty pleasure!
Laura Bell Bundy
#39. If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.
Derrek Lee
#40. That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday, you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay.
David Sedaris
#41. The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.
Paul Rankin
#42. You didn't realize how much work everyone else put into holding themselves upright until you saw Levi leaning against a wall. He looked like he was leaning on something even when he wasn't. He made standing look like vertical lying down.
Rainbow Rowell
#43. I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.
John Lithgow
#44. With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.
Seth Rogen
#45. I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete's been doing by how her body is carved.
Diana Nyad
#46. Cut the crap! I don't care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours.
Pulkit Patel
#47. Murder is a high-pressure squad and a small one, only twenty permanent members and under any added strain (anyone leaving, anyone new, too much work, too little work), it tends to develop a tinge of cabin-fevery hysteria, full of complicated alliances and frantic rumors.
Tana French
#48. I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.
Chuck Klein
#49. We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.
John R. Allen
#50. Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
C. Wright Mills
#51. Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in.
Blake Griffin
#52. It's fun as a coach to work with somebody that has power and that has potential to achieve, really, anything that he wants to achieve. It's just a question of time and how much work they put into it.
Hank Haney
#53. There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.
John Edwards
#54. It's so much work to make a movie, and for me it has to get me off my butt. To get me actually writing you have to strike something inside, you have to hit a power main to get the energy. You have to strike something you care about.
Rian Johnson
#55. At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator.
Howard Coble
#56. Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
Terry Pratchett
#57. I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.
Jeff Garcia
#58. I love being supportive of other YouTubers because I know how much work and dedication goes into building a channel, and I think that the community on YouTube is just so important because the viewers get to be a part of what you're creating.
Rosanna Pansino
#59. _Sunday!_ In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all of the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest
Betty MacDonald
#60. Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline ... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with ... something about yourself, your career, your spouse
Dale Dauten
#61. Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.
Billy Unger
#62. In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.
Tom Hanks
#63. You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
#64. When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#65. Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
#66. it's amazing the things you can convince yourself of when the alternative seems like too much work.
Clayton Baker
#67. There's always something or someone to do.'But don't you ever find it too much work, Howard?' asks Flora, 'All this dressing and undressing, all these undistinguished climaxes, all this chasing for more of the same, is it really, really, worth the effort?'Of course' [ ... ].
Malcolm Bradbury
#68. I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.
Stanislaw Ulam
#69. I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.
Rob Roberge
#70. The purpose of life is to play. The purpose of work is to be as much like play as possible. If life comes to entail too much work, see item one.
Loren Woodson
#71. There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how.
Jamie Muir
#72. To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.
Anne Heche
#73. Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work He has left to do in our lives.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#74. If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
Idris Elba
#75. Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, while the dolphins just played all day. The dolphins thought they were smarter for the same reason.
Gershon Legman
#76. Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
Wislawa Szymborska
#77. One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#78. The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.
Alexander MacLaren
#79. I never imagined being undead would be so much work," Jeff lamented.
"Being a 'vampire' takes no work at all," Timothy emphasized vampire. "It's surviving that takes all the work.
Ben Tousey
#80. When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.
Jason Bateman
#81. I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
Allen Ginsberg
#82. I suppose i have a really loose interpretation of "work", because i think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. the machinery is always going. even when you sleep
Andy Warhol
#83. I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.
Kim Cattrall
#84. I have a studio at my house, and there is a sister studio for Disney which is about 45 minutes away, and we haven't dropped a beat. In the art of animation and voiceover work, you can pretty much work from anywhere.
Jodi Benson
#85. Mychael said the rock's not affecting you, and from what I'm seeing I'm inclined to agree."
"I beg to differ."
"Feeling evil?" Justinius asked.
"No."
"Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?"
"No and no."
"Take over the world?"
"Too much work.
Lisa Shearin
#86. It's exhausting to care about something that much, to put in all that effort. Whenever I quit smoking it's so much work, and every time I slip up there's this thrill, because I just stop caring. Sometimes it's a relief not to give a shit.
Cristina Moracho
#87. Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#89. Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.
AnnaSophia Robb
#90. There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.
Ilchi Lee
#91. There was, like, a point where music was slow for me, like '09. I wasn't getting that much work.
Hit-Boy
#92. Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#93. I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.
Paul Reubens
#94. Genius does not have time to stand admiring its reflection; it has too much work to get finished.
Benjamin Wood
#95. Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.
Jason Calacanis
#97. He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it - it was both ugly and abstract, a continuous manipulation of people devoid of any of the tangible rewards that so much work had. That's politics....
Kim Stanley Robinson
#98. I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack
Tana French
#99. It's ironic to think that behaviors we consider neurotic are actually holding the word in place - but sooner or later whatever protection they offer decays.And it's so much work.So damn much work.
Stephen King
#100. I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!
Leighton Meester
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