Sam Levenson Quotes

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

One must work with time and not against it.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

We work super hard to not have to work

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

I really love learning and working long hours.