Anthony Trollope Quotes

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Those who work much do not work hard.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

If the only way you can do well is working more hours than someone else, you're going to lose out because there's always going to be someone who is going to work more.

My productivity is overwhelming!

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that's fine with me.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.