Stuart Eizenstat Quotes

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

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 don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

Vince McMahon is a workaholic; he sleeps 4 hours a night. The last thing that you want to tell the old man is that you are burned out - you need a break.

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work.

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

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

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.

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.

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.'

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

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.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

I'm working myself to death.

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

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

I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.

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.

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.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.

Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.