Charles Lamb Quotes

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.

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 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'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.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

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.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

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.

We work too hard to be miserable.

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

At times, you get going and you think you need to work, work, work, and your body is going to get fatigued at some point.

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.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

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

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

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

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

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.'

Lack of time is a real health killer.

I'm working myself to death.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

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

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.