Workdays Quotes

#1. Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid.

Hayim Nahman Bialik

#2. My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

Aaron Levie

#3. No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Does the U.S. attorney know you spend your workdays listening to office gossip?"
Jack grinned in satisfaction. "The U.S. attorney is thrilled that there's finally someone else for this
office to gossip about.

Julie James

#5. Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Mika Brzezinski

#6. Ah, Colorado: the one place in America where people wake up earlier on weekends than workdays.

Mark Obmascik

#7. I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

Peter Lerangis

#8. Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean's The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it's the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.

Fennel Hudson

#9. I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.

Dyan Sheldon

#10. Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Francois Rabelais

#11. 16 February. Can't see my way clear. As though everything I possessed had escaped me, and as though it would hardly satisfy me if it all returned.

Franz Kafka

#12. I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting your penis in their mouth.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. My own gut feeling is that everyone's psychic ... and it's so ingrained a part of us that we very rarely notice it. The talent may be largely preventative, and that keeps it from being noticed, too.

Stephen King

#14. Beginnings are happy never-endings as long as you remember where you started from.

Steven Cuoco

#15. You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

Ann M. Martin

#16. If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

James Surowiecki

#17. They'd had no interest in proving themselves. They just did what they loved - with tremendous drive and enthusiasm - and it led where it led.

Carol S. Dweck

#18. Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

James Ellis

#19. Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Desmond Tutu

#20. Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

Ray Charles