Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
Historically almost every team I've managed has returned from even just a five-day break with improved physical output.
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.
Sacks shouldn't be the only thing that determines if you had a good year.
But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.
Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.
Our objective today is to get the greatest amount of work out of every individual.
Out of the work comes the work.
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.
The work is getting the work.
Measure not dispatch by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of business.
1st Baron Verulam
My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.
You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.
