The Hours Quotes

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the 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.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

'We have to be back in three hours,' Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This,' Gansey replied, 'is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.'

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.

The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

Even in our darkest hour we must remember; never dispair.

When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.