Professional Exhaustion Quotes

The first time in my career I thought it makes no sense anymore, that I'll retire.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy

I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.

If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn't have any time for my family.

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

I do think 'Dr. Ken,' at its heart, is about a great doctor who's a bit burned out. But even when I was a burned-out doctor, I was still happy and had a life outside of work.

As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.

I will have some time off, do some media works, and I think, for 17 years, I have given everything I could.

I don't know how long i could be a vet before i got bored and started shagging stuff.

I'm a tame actress. I get tired now that I'm entertaining day and night professionally. I think the only reason for going to a party is to pick up a good lay. When you've got a permanent boyfriend it's rather spoilt. Because the fun of a party is to flirt with everyone. I like flirting.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.

I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America.

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

I would like 'Frost' to go on forever, but you don't want people in the press hammering you, saying you've outstayed your welcome or that it's not believable anymore.

I think a lot of trainers are forgetting to take care of themselves and focusing only on their clients. You see it with doctors, nurses, and caretakers. If you put too much effort into only helping others, you are neglecting yourself, and your health is the only thing that makes it possible for you to help others.

After 114 Test matches, 228 ODIs, and 78 T20 Internationals, it is time for others to take over. I have had my turn, and to be honest, I am tired.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.