Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

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.

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.

In our country, there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don't have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time.

I prefer a long day of starting in the morning over working late into the night.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

My body works best when I'm playing all the time, so when I work more and I play more, I feel better.

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.

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