Kevin Bleyer Quotes

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn't a level playing field.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

It doesn't seem right for anybody to get so much attention.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.