Gail Porter Quotes

I tend to overdo things.

I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

It is very important not to try too hard because in the past I think I have done that.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

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.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

I can't do anything in moderation.

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.

You’ve got to be careful that once you get on this treadmill, that you can get off.

I overworked myself to a point of malnourishment.

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

I've been a workaholic for many years, but at the same time, I do it because I love it.

Some girls just don't know when to put the brush down, when to stop.

I'm afraid I'm a complete workaholic perfectionist.

I'm really pretty ridiculous about how much I work on my music, and I don't look at it as necessarily a good quality. I look at it as a side effect of my apparent insanity. It is what it is, man.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

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

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.