Robert Musil Quotes

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.'

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

I just always wanted to stay busy.

I am opposed to vacations and leisure. I try to make every day a work day. Even if there's nothing on my schedule, I will try do at least one task that is work-related.

I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.

I try not to stop too long and look at the things that I am doing or have done because I feel like there is still a lot more work that I have to do.

Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there's virtually no competition.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

I just have work to do; I just do it.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Whitney Cummings is one of the hardest working people I know, and she's very motivated.