Quotes About Stress

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

Set goals, work hard, trust yourself, and only stress over what you can control.

Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're not getting the most from our daily lives.

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.