Work Obsession Quotes

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I've always had the kinds of careers that have a tendency to go home with you.

Films are all I know. I wouldn't know what to do with a day off.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

I honestly can't ever imagine retiring because I don't know what else I would do - even when I'm on holiday, 70% of the time I'm working. I think I'd like to go out on the job so, ideally, 'And the winner is... Ooooh, and he's gone!'

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything.

If there's one thing that precedes my sleep, it's my work.

I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

Work infuses my whole life. My creative life is my real life, so it's hard to separate.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny

I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.

[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it.

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working.

My job is my life.

No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.