Janeane Garofalo Quotes

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

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.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

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.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.