Parker Conrad Quotes

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

I'm such a workaholic.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.

I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.

I find in L.A. that you ask people how they're doing, and the immediate answer is, 'Oh, I'm very busy,' as if busy is the goal.

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

One of the more difficult things is the time. Either you are going 100 miles an hour, or you are sleeping. There is nothing in between.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse.

I'm always working, and I'm a single parent, so I don't think I have time for stuff most normal people do.

The issue of work/life balance is a real one, and yet I still find myself frustrated if I feel like I'm giving some aspect of my life short shrift.

I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.

Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can't stop work for even five minutes or we'll fall behind: the idea that if we don't take breaks, we're being more productive.

Between 2008 and 2010 I exhausted myself because I wanted to please everyone.