Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.
I think I'm a workaholic, but I'm a workaholic that is loving his work.
If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.
It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space.
I've never really been a workaholic.
You don't have to die in order to make a living!
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.
Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.
Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.
There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.
Workaholism is a block, not a building block.
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.
