Ang Lee Quotes

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

I need to work to feel well.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

Working is a great distraction technique.

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

I'm not disciplined at all. I barely function. But I get a lot done. I take days off all the time, but when I work, I work very fast and very efficiently. But I'm always having days when I'm feeling a little anxious, and I take a day off. I work in a funny way.

You find little ways to keep your mind at peace so that you can, at the end of the day, do the most important thing, which is do a good job.

I don't mind working long hours, because I enjoy doing that. The way to make myself happy is to work long hours.

I think one of the things that happened to me in the last couple of years in the WWE where I realized how unhappy I was in that environment, was that I realized that I needed variety and balance in my life.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.