Hedy Lamarr Quotes

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

I've never been very good at slowing down.

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

I barely get any time for myself.

It's tough to find time to get rest.

Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have.

You get caught up sometimes in the deadlines and the pressures and certain things that you can't really control that you forget that this is supposed to be an enjoyable journey.

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

I'm a big believer in doing what you've got to do, but taking a breather when you can.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

We work super hard to not have to work

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.