Robert Peel Quotes

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

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.

I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.

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

You get burned out very quickly. You can sprint 100 yards, but you cant sprint a mile, and these jobs are all sprints.

We'd tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, 'You guys need to take a little time off.'

In the beginning, I took on every opportunity because I was so determined to get my name and music out there. You can get your sleep, but honestly your brain needs a break, too, and so many people forget that.

At times, you get going and you think you need to work, work, work, and your body is going to get fatigued at some point.

I can't stop working!

Vince McMahon is a workaholic; he sleeps 4 hours a night. The last thing that you want to tell the old man is that you are burned out - you need a break.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

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

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

I stop short of being a workaholic.