Work Duration Quotes

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn't correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

I started in the restaurant industry when I was 22, so I've had quite a long tenure, if you will.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.