Job Burnout Quotes

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.

I was barely 16 when I started working. And I worked extensively. But you can work extensively till a point.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

I'm not good at cutting off from work.

You get burned out very quickly. You can sprint 100 yards, but you cant sprint a mile, and these jobs are all sprints.

I don't go to see many comedies anymore, because I guess it feels like another day at the office.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Sometimes when you turn a hobby into a job, it becomes work.

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 first began to realize that it was time to leave my job when the sight of my manager's telephone number on my screen made my heart contract and burn.

I've done what I've always wanted to do. But as one Senator said, just because you're doing what you've always wanted to do, it doesn't mean you have to do it forever. And it's very taxing in terms of the travel, the running around.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.

If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.

I worry that I would actually hurt my career doing something I didn't enjoy.

Being in a relationship, I only appreciate when I come home from work how much I've given of myself at work or how depleted I am, and I sometimes worry that I've given all my best energy to my work, and all I can offer you is the emptied out shell.

I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.

You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family.