Bertrand Russell Quotes

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

At times, you get going and you think you need to work, work, work, and your body is going to get fatigued at some point.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

I'm working myself to death.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.

It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

We work too hard to be miserable.

I am overworked sometimes. I'm tired sometimes. I'm sleepy sometimes. And social media allows me to show you that I'm human, too.

Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.