Tara Stiles Quotes

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.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

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'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.

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.

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

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

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.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

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.

Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

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