Gabriel Heatter Quotes

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I just don't stop working.

I never stop working.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

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

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

When I first went to work... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be up to the top notch to give satisfaction. I worked faster than I otherwise would have done, and to him I attribute the impetus that I acquired.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

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

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.