Jeff Fisher 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.

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

I work all the time, and I'm basically in the office from the time I wake up and then working until I go to sleep every day.

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

I guess I am working pretty much all the time.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

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.

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

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

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

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

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.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

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

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

There's no down time any more.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.

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