Ryan Holiday Quotes

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

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

I'm such a workaholic.

My friends ask me why I don't chill out and take things easy. I tell them that when I used to work 326 days a year, I never had time to do anything.

I'm afraid I'm a complete workaholic perfectionist.

I am a workaholic and can do four things at a time.

I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer, and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

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

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

I have always been a workaholic.

I'm just basically a workaholic.

I always feel like I'm so busy.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

As a self-employed person, the idea of a break is completely foreign to me. If I completely switch off for any period of time, I know I'm going to pay for it several times over. For me, it's a lot better and easier to stay in touch and know what's going on seven days a week than to switch off.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.