Lalu Prasad Yadav Quotes

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

We all know what this business can do to you... you end up walking on your heels.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in a day, I'm like, 'Whoa, you guys. That's two train rides, and I have to plan for an hour-and-a-half lunch with my cat.'

I'm working myself to death.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

When you're working so much, it's so hard. When you do have time off, or when I had time off, rather than going out and seeing loads of people and being really sociable, I was always quite a homebody.

Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.

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.

… a job of infinite stress

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.