Louis Kronenberger Quotes

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

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.

… a job of infinite stress

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

Americans of all backgrounds and in all kinds of circumstances are stressed out by feeling overwhelmed and being over-committed.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

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.

I work myself into the ground.

I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.