Roxane Gay Quotes

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

I think you have to make time for yourself so that work doesn't become the end-all be-all.

I'm not a workaholic!

At times, you get going and you think you need to work, work, work, and your body is going to get fatigued at some point.

I can't stop working!

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.