Alice Waters Quotes

You can't work all your life.

I like working. But now I have a deal with my wife that I take a half-day off each week.

I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.

To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'

Retired life's good, man.

I am not one of those people who want to work 24/7.

I will retire when I will am tired of running around chasing a ball.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

There will be time enough some day to work less.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.

I don't want to work all of the time.

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.