Job Demands Quotes

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work.

I've only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I've been in the industry over twenty-something years!

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

You're always working with the relationships. It's pretty demanding, but then again I love that.

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.

Our schedule is intense. We do this for five nights a week, so injuries can happen very easily with the demands of the job. It's just the nature of what we do and sports in general.

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

This is what I signed up for. I’m not here going ‘Oh, they’re so mean to me, and it’s so hard for me.’ What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight. They pay me for it.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

It's hard to balance work and family.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Any President who performs his duties diligently has no time for leisure.

Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.

People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.'

The pressures of being an MP mean free time is a very rare luxury.

My job is exhilarating. It's challenging. I find that the governance part of it, the decision making part of it - actually comes - comes pretty naturally. I think I've got a great team. I think we're making good decisions. The the hardest thing about the job is staying focused. Because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed upon you.

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.