Joseph Barbera Quotes

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

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

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

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

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

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.

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.

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.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

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.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

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'm working myself to death.

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery.

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

My only time off is when I'm sleeping.

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.'

I work all the time, and I'm basically in the office from the time I wake up and then working until I go to sleep every day.

One of the more difficult things is the time. Either you are going 100 miles an hour, or you are sleeping. There is nothing in between.

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 think I'm chronically exhausted.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

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.