Carrie Mae Weems Quotes

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

I don't have the luxury of not going to work when I don't feel up to it. Most people don't. On those days, I acknowledge I am feeling f-cking crappy, and I'm not at my best, and I still want to or need to keep walking forward. I have to do some of my best work on my worst days. I have to look pretty even when I don't feel pretty. There's a way to hold both things.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.

I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

I'm a happy human being when I'm overloaded with stuff to do, but I got stuff to do.

I would have done something else in life. Something more calming, in a different area where I did not have to use my emotions.

My productivity is overwhelming!

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time.

Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.

I don't mind working long hours, because I enjoy doing that. The way to make myself happy is to work long hours.