Long Hours Quotes

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K. Jerome

Funny, Work, Humorous

Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Doug Larson

Time, Sleep, Eight

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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie

Inspirational, Time, Golden

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

Life, Time, Sunset

'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

Ivor Novello

Real, Light, Long

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I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

Aleister Crowley

Struggle, Self, Long

Aleister Crowley (1905). “The Works of Aleister Crowley”, Yoga Publications Society

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There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

D. A. Carson

Teaching, Long, Ongoing

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I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

Richard Branson

Running, Passion, Successful

"Gentleman's Journal" Interview, www.thegentlemansjournal.com. December 10, 2012.

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And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.

Sarah Smiley

Beautiful, Morning, Knowing

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People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.

Eric Stonestreet

Long, People, Shooting

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.

Richard Branson

Running, Passion, Numbers

"Richard Branson’s Three Most Important Leadership Principles". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.mittimes.com. September 25, 2014.

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Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

Ernest Shackleton

Funny, Clever, Smart

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Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.

Lee Wulff

Lying, Lakes, Sea

Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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.. the long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools? The only secret about these pools is the name of the one person on the planet who does not know their location!

Tony Bishop

Sea, Fishing, Names

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I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

Robert Caro

Writing, Long, Afternoon

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At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

Philip Slater

Men, Long, Twenties

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Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

Stephen Ambrose

Writing, Long, Way

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To be a miracle worker you do not have to get a doctoral degree, become a minister, eat a particular food, or be able to meditate for long hours. All you need to do is to begin to see beauty in your life and those around you.

Alan Cohen

Long, Miracle, Degrees

Alan Cohen (1987). “Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation”, Dolphin Communications Co

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Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

Elizabeth David

Organization, Long, Kitchen

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I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before...I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

America Ferrera

Thinking, Cities, Long

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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

Katharine Anthony

Mother, Long, Relaxation

KATHARINE ANTHONY “MOTHERS WHO MUST LEARN”

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I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

Victoria Pratt

Makeup, Hair, Years

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I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.

Travis Barker

Home, Kids, Night

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It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.

Michael O'Leary

Holiday, Kids, Two

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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