Jeremy Paxman Quotes

Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.

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.

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

Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where the wealth gap has widened.

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

There's no down time any more.

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

I think, a lot of times in a big city, you're working even when you're not.

I have a crazy work schedule.

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.

If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

I didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.