Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Work hard, play hard.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.

I take commissions because I know I'll have to get up early in the morning and work.

Luckily enough for me I reached a level in the game where no one questioned my work ethic or my ability and then I was like, I don't care. Every off-season I might do a scene in a TV show or something just to keep that going.

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.