Ted Turner Quotes

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

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.

Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

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.

The truth is, if we abuse ourselves with too much work and too little play, our body is eventually going to fight back, and the results can be terrible.

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.

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

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

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

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

I am tired of hustling.

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 working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in a day, I'm like, 'Whoa, you guys. That's two train rides, and I have to plan for an hour-and-a-half lunch with my cat.'

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

I'm working myself to death.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.