Frank A. Clark Quotes

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

I find in L.A. that you ask people how they're doing, and the immediate answer is, 'Oh, I'm very busy,' as if busy is the goal.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.

I don't have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I wanted more stuff, now I am older, I want more time.

I am not one of those people who want to work 24/7.

Money shouldn't be the driver for where you spend your time.

I don't want to do too many films because I don't aspire to buy huge cars or build bungalows.

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.

I have no personal life.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.