Weekdays Quotes

• People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Sunday, Clothes, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1720, Random House

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• Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).

  Ben Clymer

  Believe, Thinking, Effort

  "Careers In Fashion". Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

  Philip J. Davis

  Sunday, Typical, Statistics

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• Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to 'be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.' And then President Obama stuffed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday.

  Jimmy Fallon

  White, Yesterday, Role Models

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• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Coffee, Writing, Sunday

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• I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."... A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Thinking, Trying

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Heart, Sunday

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• My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

  Aaron Levie

  Weekend, Night, Play

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• It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

  Mark Twain

  Sunday, Use, Moral

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.498, University of Alabama Press

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• The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Sake, Sabbath, Climax

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.26, Macmillan

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• I remember I did quite a lot of interviews when the book and the CD came out, and I did a drivetime interview for Radio London or something. You wouldn't immediately associate the music on Ocean Of Sound with drivetime radio, but people found things that they liked, and the DJ was playing some records at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on a weekday.The man who was playing them said to me, "That Peter Brotzmann track, it's like having your head boiled in acid."

  David Toop

  Book, Ocean, Men

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.

  Jennifer Dunning

  New York, Air, Cities

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• The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

  Anne Tyler

  Morning, Writing, Trying

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• Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Block, Sunday

  Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.20, Moody Publishers

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• A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Weekend, Differences, Portions

  Source: time.com

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• Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.

  Robert Hayden

  Father, Sunday, Weather

  Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Thinking, Meals

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Weekend, Up Early

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• In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

  John Updike

  Religion, Church, Coca Cola

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• Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Morning

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

  Richard Saul Wurman

  New York, Average, Information

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• I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.

  Gary Lineker

  Jobs, Saturday

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• An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

  C. S. Lewis

  Clothes, Ulster, May

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspired, Sabbath

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over. It's grueling work, panning for gold. You just keep at it and eventually you get a few grains. Or flakes. Or whatever gold looks like in rivers. Or maybe it's like fishing. Who cares? You just have to do it every day because you never know which day is going to be your productive day.

  Tim Schafer

  Jobs, Writing, Fishing

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