Gareth Barry Quotes

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

I'm a workaholic, and I know it. And I don't care to deal with it.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

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

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

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.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

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.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in a day, I'm like, 'Whoa, you guys. That's two train rides, and I have to plan for an hour-and-a-half lunch with my cat.'

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.