Robert Benchley: Working

Robert Benchley was American comedian. Explore interesting quotes on working.

Robert Benchley: 58 quotes0 likes

“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”

Robert Benchley

Quoted in The Algonquin Wits, (1968) by R E Drennan, p. 5

“I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.”

Robert Benchley

My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)

“I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.”

Robert Benchley

Quoted in The Algonquin Wits, (1968) by R E Drennan, p. 5

“A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.”

Robert Benchley

"How to Get Things Done", Chips off the old Benchley (1949)

“Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.”

Robert Benchley

As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations : A Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 154