James Russell Lowell Quotes

Work cures everything.

I function better in a world where I have to wake up every morning to go to work.

Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

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

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

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.

I need to work to feel well.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

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.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.

Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win.