Dervla Kirwan Quotes

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

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

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

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

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

I function better in a world where I have to wake up every morning to go to work.

I love working. It gives you a reason to get up in the morning.

I just work every day.

I don't like to work. I am not helpless without work. Work is an obsession for me.

I'd rather work than not work.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

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.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime.

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I'm an extreme workaholic.

The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.