Li Bingbing Quotes

I love this... being busy and working every day.

I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

I pretty much work all the time.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I don't mind being busy.

The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I have six jobs.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

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

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

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.