After Hours Quotes

• 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

  Dance, Writing, Winning

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books

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• When you finally get something together after hours of work and it's good, you know it's not for nothing!

  Taylor Townsend

  Together, Hours

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Kids, Childhood

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• The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

  George Lois

  Creative, Joy, Sublime

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• What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Toxic Waste, People

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• We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.

  N.D. Wilson

  Laughter, Taken, Sadness

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• Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

  Edwin Land

  People, Focus, Intense

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• Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

  Tommy Chong

  Vancouver, Clubs, Wells

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• Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Issues, Cities, Shopping

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• I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Investing, Wow

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Religious, Heart

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Love, Girl, Mother

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Business, Pieces, Paper

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• I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

  Susanna Clarke

  Silence, Solitude, Idle Chatter

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Hands, Perfect

  "The Elephant Vanishes". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.

  Paul Auster

  Struggle, Writing, Hands

  "I want to tell you a story" by Paul Auster, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.

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• Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Sweat, Body

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'

  Ernest K. Gann

  School, Thinking, Training

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• There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Growing Up, Book

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality, and if you're not producing enough, make a schedule and stick to it.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Important, Quality

  "Live Chat with Lydia Davis". www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Jobs, Heart

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• Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Tree, Growth

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.

  D. A. Carson

  Talking, Historical, Important

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

  Don Rickles

  Uncles, Latin, Names

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• I was cast in this commercial called "Hour After Hour." It was for a deodorant that won't wear off. And [Susan Sarandon] became the Hour After Hour girl after me. But I never met her. So I didn't really know Susan till after this movie [ "The Big Wedding"].

  Diane Keaton

  Girl, Deodorant, Bigs

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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