Less Work Quotes

I don't want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

My life at home gives me absolute joy. Having so much time there with the family has just been incredible. My life has changed and I work less, but I was never really one to work too much.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

I've politely declined a few reality-type things but generally have been asked to do things that I'd enjoy. I'll be doing less in the new year so I can get some writing done.

We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.

I worked all the time. Every moment I wasn't working, I was home with my family. I got divorced. And now I'm doing it all over again, and I've learned that the key is, I've got to work less.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I love having Phil [Robertson] in the kitchen! Not only is he a great cook, but it means less work for me!

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.

The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And, that's sort of a virtue and a wonderful thing to be able to experience. It's so much less work.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

It's not so much less pressure, it's less work, which is really exciting to me. I'm just personally looking forward to being able to spend a little more time doing different things, so that's really great. Jay and I are writing a book this year which is really fun and so yeah, I am very excited to spend less crazy 12-hour days on set. Those were taxing times.

All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around.

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.