Edith Wharton Quotes

I do tend to overdo everything.

I tend to overdo things.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer, and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.

I've had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don't push me too hard, because I'll go until I just crash. I don't have a stop button.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.

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.

My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.

I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing.

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

I was in the gym seven hours a day, six times a week, and Sunday was my day of rest. So there wasn't a lot of time that I had to myself, and obviously, that kind of ruined the joy of the sport.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

When I started playing, I saw a lot of people who were 45 and unhappy. I told myself I'd never be in a position where I had to play all the time. And I haven't been.

Far too many people hide behind their busy lifestyles

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.