I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.
I knew that this job would be too much for me.
The Blossoms had gotten so we were working seven days a week, three or four sessions a day, which was literally killing us, physically. With the instruments that the musicians play, they can do that, but not with us using our voices.
Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.
Really, the amount of work I do on a project, I will torture myself.
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
Everybody who does anything at all does too much.
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
