Long Hours Quotes

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Time, Golden

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• For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Sleep, Eight

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• It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it comes down to that moment, that performance. The goal isn't just to improve yourself, but to transport people.

  Gillian Murphy

  Two, Long, People

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• If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.

  Graham Swift

  Writing, Cells, Long

  Graham Swift (2012). “Making an Elephant: Writing from Within”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  Adam Baldwin

  Hero, Long, Firefighter

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• The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.

  Scott Foley

  Dream, Kissing, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long hours. Although some bullying behaviours may be present in these issues, in my view this dilutes and devalues the term "workplace bullying" which should be used only for the more serious cases of conflict involving a serial bully. If there isn't a serial bully involved, it's probably not bullying you're dealing with.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Issues, Views

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• I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth.

  Jim Henson

  Real, Thinking, Vacation

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• This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Reading, Book

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.5, Da Capo Press

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• As a single mom, I'm juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.

  Edie Falco

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

  Eli Broad

  Success, Real, Hard Work

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• It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Long, Religion

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• My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?
  Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.

  Harvey Pekar

  Issues, Long, People

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• I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

  Victoria Pratt

  Makeup, Hair, Years

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• The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

  Ivor Novello

  Real, Light, Long

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• For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

  Katharine Anthony

  Mother, Long, Relaxation

  KATHARINE ANTHONY “MOTHERS WHO MUST LEARN”

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• At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

  Philip Slater

  Men, Long, Twenties

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• I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

  Aleister Crowley

  Struggle, Self, Long

  Aleister Crowley (1905). “The Works of Aleister Crowley”, Yoga Publications Society

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• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Exercise, Long, Track

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• Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Happiness, Children, Lying

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

  Jane Goodall

  Long, Understanding, Forests

  "Jane Goodall: Primatologist and Animal Activist". Book by Connie Jankowski, 2009.

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• Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

  Donald Knuth

  Long, People, Roles

  "Email (let's drop the hyphen)". Article on a personal home page at Stanford University, www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu.

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