Gloria Steinem Quotes

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

Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.

I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches... in year 11.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

So, I went to Harvard and I got exposed to American work habits. I didn't even realise for a while that I was behind. I kind of had the illusion that I was understanding things. But people worked so hard and the thing I learnt first in America was that people work incredibly hard.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

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.

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

I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.

The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

I always avoid not working.

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.