Corbin Bernsen Quotes

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

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.

We’ve got to end the 3 day work week.

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 a concentrated period of work for about five months, and then I take a bunch of time off. That's just the way I work.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

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

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

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.

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience.

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

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

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.