Burnout Quotes

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

I am busier than a whore working two beds.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

When I stopped wrestling, I literally lay in bed for two weeks.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.

I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.

When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

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 am a workaholic, have always been.

I was only a teenager when I played with the Herd and Humble Pie, and I was still in my early twenties when 'Frampton Comes Alive!' came out. That was an immense amount of work in a relatively short period of time. I needed to stop for a while and grow up, but I didn't do that.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

I'm in New York a lot. And every time I'm in New York, I'm out every night - it's a bit much. After a week, I'm ready to go home.

I didn't handle success all that well.

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particular, just to get away from the scrutiny and intensity of everything. I love it but it was too much for me.

Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.