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Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink
Just relax. Everyone around you is working too hard.
Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?
Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
The true workers all die in a fidget of frustration. So much to do, and so much left undone.
Once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about work. They became desperate to excuse their own laziness.
I get a little too obsessive with work.
Work often gets in the way of more important things, like writing.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing
Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction
When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.
Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.
Work is the ultimate addiction.
Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.
Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place.
Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams.
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.
Sometimes I work so long and so hard that I have no idea what day or time it is. I forget to eat. I don't get ready for the day. I fall asleep on the couch and wake up and get back to work.
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
Get tough: don't work under pressure; work over pressure.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.
It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.
Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.
When the heart is heavy, the hands crave work
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
Work is the undoing of nature.
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.
Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.
Work was not a cure; it never had been: it simply grew a skin on despair, and crusted over it.
The lack of work destroys people.
There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.
Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence.
Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.
The work doesn't begin until you get tired!
We're never really taught that we have to think about our work before we can do it; much of our daily activity is already defined for us by the undone and unmoved things staring at us when we come to work, or by the family to be fed, the laundry to be done, or the children to be dressed at home.
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.
Exhaustion is not a status symbol or a badge of honor. Stop the glorification of busy and learn to nurture your soul.
Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.
If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.
I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.
Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.
Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.
you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters
If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.
All work and no play will make you sad and grey!
Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.
How hard we work to overburden and overcomplicate our lives!
Burnout ... occurs because we're trying to solve the same problem over and over.
The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.
I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
Work will drive you crazy if you let it.
I'm such a workaholic.
I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.
Work is not about survival alone
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.
Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you.
If all you do is work, you're unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what's worth extra effort and what's not. And you wind up just plain tired. No one makes sharp decisions when tired.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Exhaustion's not an excuse, its a reason
Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.
Our lack of focus is our primary problem and the source of many of our difficulties, like procrastination, trouble setting priorities, trouble dealing with time, trouble finishing projects, perfectionism, and the inevitable demoralization.
I'm an extreme workaholic.
Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous ...
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.
When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.
Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
I'm a workaholic.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades.