Top 66 Long Hours Quotes

I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it’s long days, long hours.

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can’t – to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can’t.

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.

That’s why you have the long hours in the studio and on sets: so you can come out and see the fans. To see the smiles you put on people’s faces.

For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.

You finish a job and it’s very emotional because you’re working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family.

When I’m grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals… it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.

Poor Vogue is working really long hours – she‘s a ‘model,’ that’s what it says on her Wikipedia or whatever. People just assume she does nothing but she’s super-busy all the time.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

Whether it’s police officers, firefighters, first responders, or 911 dispatchers, many dedicated Americans work long hours, and often in difficult conditions, to make sure that when someone‘s in need, they can help.

I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.

When we were doing ‘Khatra Khatra Khatra’, I would often talk to all these actors and they mentioned how they would fast for long hours. I decided to give it a try.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

I really love learning and working long hours.

It was quite emotional leaving ‘Holby’ but it was the right time. I was working long hours and wanted to spend more time with my daughter.

I wasn’t a troublemaker. I wasn’t impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

I track some long hours.

When your tummy is full – even while shooting for long hours – you feel good.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don’t get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that’s made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.

There will be many obstacles in the pursuit of your dreams. I had long hours of training, balancing studies and badminton.

Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.

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.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn’t love casting the way that I always thought I would.

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.

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

I’m in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There’s not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it’s generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

I don’t mind working long hours, because I enjoy doing that. The way to make myself happy is to work long hours.

The best job a man could have would be a chef. They’d understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

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.

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

Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.

When medical students focus on helping others, they’re able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.

Movies remind me of recording. Just the process of it – the intricacies, the technicalities, the days and the long hours, and mastering and mixing and editing. But seeing the final product, it all pays off in the end. That’s the rush – when you see things come to life.

For someone who gets into the character and shoots for long hours, it is pretty difficult to cut off from the character and return to their normal life.

Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there’s no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you’re striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

TV requires a lot more patience. No one’s ever like, ‘I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!’ It’s an easy life. With ‘Silicon Valley,’ it’s long hours and very unglamorous.

We were not rich by any means. My dad was a plasterer and worked long hours – I hardly ever saw him when I was growing up. He had always gone to work before I woke up, and usually, I would be in bed before he came home.

As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented – even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

I do think people would be surprised to know that journalists from various news outlets are in this together in many ways in terms of these long hours and in terms of really sharing a desire to get information to the American people.

Actors travel a lot and work long hours, and sometimes you eat at odd hours, so I have to work out to keep my weight at the same level.

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that’s the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

I dub only four hours a day for a Tamil film because my voice doesn’t stay strong for long hours.

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

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.

I always lose weight – around 5 to 7 lbs. It’s because of our strenuous rehearsals and long hours, which is not relatable to anybody because you’re working out 8 to 10 hours a day.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I’m an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn’t bother me. I don’t get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don’t go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I’m not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it’s healthy.

There are lots of reasons for that gap between men’s and women‘s wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you’re shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

We work long hours during elections.

I’ve been really, really fortunate to have a mother that has spent many, many long hours on her knees praying for me. And I guarantee you, I would almost bet everything I have that that has saved me more often than not. So it sustains me.

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.

Public health is hard. Nobody goes into it for the money or the acclaim. People work many long hours.

I belong to a family where I think we’re all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

I’ve sat in so many meetings where they talk about converting movies to 3D just for the China market and just to make more money. I saw that people in China work long, long hours and that it’s expensive to go to the movies, and you want to rip them off for even more money? I don’t think that’s right.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

The teams that worked on the innovative distribution of ‘The Interview‘ are just a few of the many that put in long hours over our studio holiday to ensure business continuity, rebuild our systems, and protect our company.