Quotes About Overtime At Work

#1. I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

Joan Jett

#2. I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

David Ogilvy

#3. I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.

Alan Autry

#4. How long does it take?" I asked. "I'm sorry?" "How long does it take you to get dressed for work in the morning?" "Two and a half hours," she said. "Do they pay you overtime for that?

Ilona Andrews

#5. A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality.

Tom DeMarco

#6. So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Josephus Daniels

#7. I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

Michelle Rodriguez

#8. A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

Patti LuPone

#9. A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Sufjan Stevens

#10. Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

Ann Coulter

#11. Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

Graham Kennedy

#12. Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'

Carrie Vaughn

#13. Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once
children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work
and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.

Susan L. Taylor

#14. 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

#15. Everything is cracked, everything is stained except the fragile moments that hang crystalline in time and make life worth living.

Pierce Brown

#16. Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra" - in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. To be the best you have to work overtime.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#18. When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

Mike Krzyzewski

#19. You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?

Billy Joel

#20. The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

Noah Feldman

#21. Sometimes silence is needed the most when life is so full of noise.

Rebekah Crane

#22. Hello, beautiful Livia," Blake answered.
"How did you know it was me?" Livia saw her wide smile in the rear view mirror.
"The phone looked sexier when it rang.

Debra Anastasia

#23. In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

Gautama Buddha

#24. There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Theodore Sturgeon

#25. I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

John Boyne

#26. Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

Monica Crowley

#27. It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Richard Linklater

#28. We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

Lilly Ledbetter

#29. Second, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes typically lie at the hubs of cellular signaling pathways.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#30. It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?

B. J. Palmer

#31. You see, we capitalists will never actually ask you to work overtime. I don't even track your hours. I just make it clear that I trust you to get your job done in the time allotted. And then I hand you twice as much work as you can reasonably do in a 40-hour week.

Nick Hanauer

#32. It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.

Judith Kelman

#33. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Heather Simmons

#34. I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#35. Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.

Steven Harrison

#36. Watch it." Josh bites into a pink apple and talks through a full mouth. "He has parts down there you don't have."
"Ooo, parts," I say. "Intriguing. Tell me more."
Josh smiles sadly. "Sorry. Privileged information. Only people with parts can know about said parts.

Stephanie Perkins

#37. we don't work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn't get done on time.

Tom DeMarco