David Morrissey Quotes

I'm not good when idle.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

I hate being idle - there are still so many things I want to do.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.'

I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

I'm not afraid of hard work. I like it! It's the other bit - the not working - I find more problematic. If I'm not busy, I just get antsy. I've been this way since I was a child. Sitting still is like torture for me.

I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.