Top 100 Quotes About Work Week
#1. In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.
Jason Calacanis
#2. French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day. Good luck.
Thomas L. Friedman
#3. I despise Wednesdays! They are the Marquis de Sade of the work week. Wednesday are so awful that...wait..what? It's Thurs? (face-palm)
L.G.A. McIntyre
#4. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama
#5. A one-hour work-week ... would minimize the damage that Congress can do.
Charles Krauthammer
#6. According to a 2007 assessment by Salary, the domestic labor of a woman who stays home to care for her children is worth an impressive $138,095 a year. (That's a three-percent raise from the $134,121 "earned" the year before.) By the way, that salary is compensation for a 91.6-hour work week,
Melissa Stanton
#7. I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.
Jason Calacanis
#8. Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.
Steven Magee
#9. If each Monday morning, you make a choice to move into the new work week with renewed commitment and passion, you can change all areas of your life. You can truly change your Mondays and change your life.
David Cottrell
#10. Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades.
Steven Magee
#11. Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!
David Dweck
#12. Colluded with German communists to build a secret radio and send messages to the Allies. In addition to his endless work week, Werner also had
Edith Hahn Beer
#13. Strive for the 4 hour work week. The rest of the time run like hell.
Jesse Petersen
#14. On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
Jean Stapleton
#15. Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.
Vicki Donlan
#16. 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
#17. I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.
Neil Simon
#18. RVM Thoughts for Today
For those who love what they do , even working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week , is not work at all. It is just Fun.
R.v.m.
#19. I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.
Julian Casablancas
#20. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.
Tina Fey
#21. The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.
Natalie Morales
#22. A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain's work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, 'You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.' He then handed the BlackBerry to McCain, who attempted to withdraw $20 from it.
Amy Poehler
#23. I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me ... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
Karen Black
#24. Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.
Bill Shankly
#25. I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
Chaim Potok
#26. The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#27. I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.
Mickey Sumner
#28. The student who elects to risk it all - which is nothing - to establish an online video rental service that delivers $5,000 per month in income from a small niche of Blu-ray aficionados, a two-hour-per-week side project that allows him to work full-time as an animal rights lobbyist.
Timothy Ferriss
#29. If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. ... during the week.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#30. Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
Faye Wattleton
#31. I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.
Nico Tortorella
#32. I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.
Simon Cowell
#33. This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
Anne Frank
#34. Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#35. I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.
Brad Listi
#36. If I don't go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it's nearly all weights work to help with definition.
Jonas Armstrong
#37. I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.
Don Cheadle
#38. I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.
Lauren London
#39. I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
Idris Elba
#40. As your bodybuilding aims become higher, obviously you have to work harder, until, believe it or not, you are performing from 20-30 sets of both biceps and triceps three workouts per week.
Reg Park
#41. You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
Kristian Bush
#43. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
#44. We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that ... sometimes every week.
Melinda Gates
#45. According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House.
Jay Leno
#46. Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
Aaron Spelling
#47. I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.
Morris Chestnut
#48. For those who love what they do, even working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week is not work at all. It is just fun. -RVM
R.v.m.
#49. Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.
John Bingham
#50. I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.
Angie Harmon
#51. There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.
Karen Allen
#52. Emotions of every color create the rich work of art that is life.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#53. A man works hard all week to keep his pants off all weekend.
Mr. Krabs
#54. The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.
Julian Tuwim
#55. My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.
Armand Hammer
#56. I would work with Trevor Horn any day of the week. I have a great relationship with him.
Chris Squire
#57. I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
George Bernard Shaw
#58. By week three, if an actor is still coming to work in a full outfit at four a.m., you can be sure that they're banging someone on set.
Anna Kendrick
#59. I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
Anthony Horowitz
#60. I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.
Jerry Robinson
#61. Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.
Ashwin Sanghi
#62. When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
Doris Lessing
#63. I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.
Graham Roberts
#64. Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a life? Somebody was telling me the other day about the lives of investment bankers who work ninety hours a week and how it affects their patterns of consumption.
Larkin Grimm
#65. I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
Alicia Vikander
#66. I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.
M.J. Rose
#67. I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,
Mother Teresa
#68. And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.
Marilyn French
#69. My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.
Arsene Wenger
#70. You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and- and if you're lucky, next week.
Garrison Keillor
#71. I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
Marla Maples
#72. In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
#73. You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play
Louisa May Alcott
#75. I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
Robert Carlyle
#76. People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.
Joey Adams
#77. I work out with a trainer three times a week, and I try to take long walks and hikes.
Rebecca Gayheart
#78. Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.
Stephen Daldry
#79. Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.
Cara Delevingne
#80. Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison
Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
Philip Larkin
#81. To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.
Nick Woodman
#82. I didn't want to be the lead guy. That's too much work. But I thought that it might be fun to be the lead guy's friend. I'd have days off, and still get a paycheck every week.
Robert Sean Leonard
#83. When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
Victor Salva
#84. Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'
Conan O'Brien
#85. I'm too tired right now to come up with an appropriate response, so I'm going to pencil you in for later in the week. How's Thursday work for you? I can tell you to fuck off properly then.
Charlie Cochet
#86. For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.
Brian Baumgartner
#87. If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.
Mireille Enos
#88. I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my trainer, Will Torres. I just came from there, actually. I turned Mark Consuelos onto Will, so he goes there too. Today we boxed. It's every kind of cross-training you can do.
Andy Cohen
#89. I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.
Ashley Tisdale
#90. Basically, high protein, low carb. I work out three to four times a week. I definitely don't do the same thing every day, whether it be spinning or hiking or walking or doing the treadmill. I try to do something different every day. But definitely the one thing is, I sweat.
Molly Sims
#91. Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#92. The pace of learning, application, and expectations of the real world of work - every week is finals week.
Charles Michael Austin
#93. It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
Arsene Wenger
#94. I think I was just trying to coast and you can't coast and try and win at the same time, you know? It'll be three years now since those wins, but the last couple of years I've just really been trying to put my miles in, get them up there to 80 miles a week, 90 miles a week and put the work in again.
Carrie Tollefson
#95. I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.
Karlie Kloss
#96. I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.
Alber Elbaz
#97. My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Orson Scott Card
#98. I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
Garrett Neff
#99. I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.
Debbie Reynolds
#100. I try to work out six days a week, you know, weights two days a week, and I try to run those six days, so I get good cardio.
Denis McDonough
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