Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

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

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

Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I work myself into the ground.

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

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

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.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

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.'