You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.
Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?
Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.
I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.
A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live. " He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday. "
B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you. " Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.
Everyone knows that Theodore Roosevelt was able to wring so much life out of each day, every hour, every minute. And yet, when one is immersed in a detailed, retrospective review of his life, his intense living, his vigor di vita, is nonetheless breathtaking.
If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.
Every once in a while you definitely have to film someone for half an hour saying something that you do not think is funny because for the previous two hours they said a bunch of stuff that you think is really funny.
If you ever find that you only have an hour to live. . . . spend it with a liberal and it will seem like a year.
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.
Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task is nearly finished.
Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.
I like to have an active set and a fun set. I keep my days to a decent hour; I don't go overtime. Do I beat people up? I beat people up in that they know I like to shoot fast. And they know I like to be efficient. And that I like to leapfrog.
Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.