Jim Root Quotes

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.

I started not enjoying myself. It wasn't fun at times. And I always said when that point comes when it's not fun anymore, then I'm done.

It's my job, but I think it is too much.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

I have reached a limit in my work.

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.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Everyone can have a bad day.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.