Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

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.

Japan has a philosophy that the harder we work, the better life will be .... Other countries don't put the same value on work.

Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.

To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.

My life is basically my work.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

If I bring my work home, it's wonderful.

I work all the time, and I'm basically in the office from the time I wake up and then working until I go to sleep every day.

Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.

We spend so many hours a day - even if we're not physically in the office - working, thinking about work, and planning and setting up and organizing with work, even with our families.

What I do is my life, but it's not like I spend 18 hours a day, seven days a week in the restaurants.

True flexibility is a symbiotic partnership between employer and employee and between technology and culture.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

People think, 'Well, because you're at Google, you can work from anywhere.' Yes, you can work from anywhere, but many just commute to offices... Working from the office is really important.

Passion should meet your professional life, and I'm a living, breathing testament to that.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.