Julie Klausner Quotes

Time off doesn't sit well with me.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

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 get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

I realized I need to work. I need to be creative. As much as I have angst and anxiety, when I'm idle, it's even more. I have to keep moving. Otherwise, I catch up with myself.

My biggest fault? I guess it's a lack of patience - not when I'm working, but when I'm not working.

That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.

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

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

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.

A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

You feel stressed when you think that you are working. When I am doing movies, I don't feel that way at all. When I wake up in the morning and then get dressed up for the job, I feel good because this is what I want. I am the happiest that way and honestly, if at all I get a day or two off, I get restless.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

Mental health, for me, is doing everything I can to help this team win. Sitting around not doing anything isn't something I've been too big on since I was young.

I'm not disciplined at all. I barely function. But I get a lot done. I take days off all the time, but when I work, I work very fast and very efficiently. But I'm always having days when I'm feeling a little anxious, and I take a day off. I work in a funny way.

I'm not good when idle.