President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'
Paul Ryan wants his weekends free? Fine - let's give him all 365 days free.
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
You'll never see me working five days a week again.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
I never do any brainwork that anyone else can do for me
There will be time enough some day to work less.
A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.
Congress ... ought to work five days a week to keep legislation from piling up.
I left 'Coronation Street' so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.
Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job.
The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.
I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
What we need is a slow time movement to gain control over time and an overhaul of work statistics to give a better perspective on all the work being done and how much of it is undesirable, unnecessary, and demeaning.
When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.
I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.
I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.
If you want to spend weekends with your family, something's got to give.
That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
