Charles Evans Hughes Quotes

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

I'm working myself to death.

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.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

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.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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.

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

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.

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.

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

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

I am tired of hustling.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

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

It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

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.