Matthew Walker Quotes

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.

Even if I am working 12 hours a day, I want to be working, not sitting in my room for eight hours waiting for my shot.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

My only time off is when I'm sleeping.

I don't like time off - I would prefer to act maybe 364 days a year.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

You do burn out, going from job to job. You have to be careful of your mental health and your body.

Work-life balance is not just a buzzy, self-help term that real business people laugh at. You need it.

I work long hours. I work very, very hard.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

I've urged employers to address workers' pain.