Kingsley Amis Quotes

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

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 definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.

You can't work all your life.

When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

I'm nervous before every day of work, almost. Even after six years of 'Breaking Bad.'

The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.

That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure.

I work. And I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

I don't want to take too long a vacation, although I do think I need a break. I start to - whenever I take too long a break or don't work a while, all my demons start to resurface, and I go a little nuts.

Well I guess I always look at other people who have maybe more traditional jobs and I think gosh their weeks are so much more stressful and busy than mine.

For me, my career and passion is InMobi. So I hardly get stressed working for it.

What we need is a slow time movement to gain control over time and an overhaul of work statistics to give a better perspective on all the work being done and how much of it is undesirable, unnecessary, and demeaning.

I can't stop working!

I am always in my space and it's a happy space. It gets stressful at times, but that's a part and parcel of our job.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don't know that I'd say I'm a workaholic because I also love maxing and relaxing.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.