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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• 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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• 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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• She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.

  Michael Crichton

  Order, Long, Labs

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• America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  War, Rushing, America

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Moving, Sleep, Soon Enough

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• Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Long, Competition

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• Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had he always had it? For how many centuries had his poor abused upper lip labored under the burden of such vegetation?

  Gail Carriger

  Hair, Long, Mustache

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• I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

  Laurie R. King

  Book, Long, Library

  "The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen (A Mary Russell Mystery)". Book by Laurie R. King, 1994.

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• Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Holiday, Mean

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• When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.

  Stephen King

  Night, Long, Zombie

  "Under the Dome". Book by Stephen King, 2009.

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• Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Truth, Long, Essentials

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• Most of my life is over. I am going to enjoy my family and friends before any of us depart this earth. I'll never start another company. I'll never work long hours again. At this point in my life, I only answer to God, my wife, and my kids. Everything else is secondary - especially the expectations of strangers.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Kids, Long, Expectations

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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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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• You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

  Amy Chua

  Life Knocks You Down, Ipods, Long

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• At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

  Reed Hastings

  Responsibility, Hard Work, Thinking

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• I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Work, Believe, Men

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• It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

  George Lucas

  Hard Work, Emotional, Doctors

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

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• I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Stars, Children, Coal Miners

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• It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

  Patti Smith

  Reading, Writing, Long

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

  Sharon Stone

  Courage, Next Day, Long

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• In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

  Radhanath Swami

  Father, Struggle, Long

  "A Swami and His Father" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

  Horace Mann

  Thank You, Teacher, Teaching

  "The Quotable Teacher" by Randy Howe, (p. 67), 2006.

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