Rutger Bregman Quotes

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

Any staff that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is bound to get burned out.

My only time off is when I'm sleeping.

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 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 get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

I'm exhausted almost all the time.

With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.

Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.

I usually work 16-hour days.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.