Quotes About Overwork

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

Work/life balance We're not in the office to enjoy ourselves. This is abundantly clear. The Japanese even have a special word for suicide from overwork: they call it karoshi. In the year 2000, 33,000 people committed karoshi.

When managers are overworked, they're doing something other than management; the more they allow themselves to be overworked, the less real management gets done.

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

All work and no pay makes a housewife.

She'd collapsed at her desk, was found on the floor, catatonic

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

The end result of all this consumption is a society running furiously to stay in place. The overwork by each member of society puts a burden (a negative externality) on others, who must also run hard to keep up. Consumers also run because others are running, with everybody finding themselves in a race they'd rather do without. The

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

I never told anyone how unhappy I was because I was also grateful I had a job versus so many people that didn't. I did not think I was allowed to be miserable, but I was overworked, sleep-deprived and just lost.

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity. No, thank you. Don't you see that's how Americans take over the world? Not just through their army and their CIA and their World Bank., but through this infectious disease called the American Dream?

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity.

I'm working myself to death.

Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses.

When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Cannot the labourers understand that by over-working themselves they exhaust their own strength and that of their progeny, that they are used up and long before their time come to be incapable of any work at all, that absorbed and brutalized by this single vice they are no longer men but pieces of men, that they kill within themselves all beautiful faculties, to leave nothing alive and flourishing except the furious madness for work.