Abraham Verghese Quotes

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

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.

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

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

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

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

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

It's hard to balance work and family.

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

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

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 don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

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.

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

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

There's 24 hours in a day, and I'm working most of them.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.