William Feather Quotes

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.'

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

Work hard, play hard.

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?

Time is money.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

Every hour of useful work is precious.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.