Nancy Meyers Quotes

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.

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

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

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

I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

I'm afraid I'm a complete workaholic perfectionist.

I am a workaholic and can do four things at a time.

In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.

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.

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

I have always been a workaholic.

I'm just basically a workaholic.

I've been a workaholic since I was 18.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.