Bertrand Russell Quotes

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

I have always been a workaholic.

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

I am a workaholic. I like to work, work, work.

I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.

Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

I'm an extreme workaholic.

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

I'm just basically a workaholic.

I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.