Keith Jackson Quotes

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in a day, I'm like, 'Whoa, you guys. That's two train rides, and I have to plan for an hour-and-a-half lunch with my cat.'

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

I'm working myself to death.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.