Top 100 Quotes About Work Too Hard
#1. Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).
Elizabeth Gilbert
#2. If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.
Rory McCann
#3. In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.
Matt Chandler
#4. My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
Kate Bush
#5. I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.
A.R. Rahman
#6. People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.
Jodi Picoult
#7. Don't work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don't make work your whole life.
Bronnie Ware
#8. I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.
Danielle Steel
#9. People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.
Robert Cheeke
#10. I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.
Keri Russell
#11. I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!
Maria Ressa
#12. Anger was such an easy emotion to feel, the refuge of someone who didn't want to work too hard. Because his
Nathan Hill
#13. I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.
Boo Weekley
#15. If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.
Zicheng Hong
#16. I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'
Josh Peck
#17. Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Don Meyer
#18. It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: "Feed me"; "Entertain me"; "Hold me"; "Love me"; "Listen to me"; "Tell me I matter"; "Make me a priority"; "Don't make me think too much or work too hard"; and so
Matthew Kelly
#19. Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.
Alex Tabarrok
#20. Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.
Robert Liparulo
#22. Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.
David Chipperfield
#23. People who work hard often work too hard ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
Alice Walker
#24. Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.
Jason Clarke
#25. It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.
Bresha Webb
#26. You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do ... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.
Creed Bratton
#27. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.
Johnny Depp
#28. Maybe the goal in America is to have an easy life, and so we find it too disgraceful to tell the truth. I meet a lot of people in my line of work, and I can say with utmost certainty
life is pretty hard for almost all of them.
Matthew Quick
#29. But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be said for patience and hard work.
Alyson Noel
#30. Vampires on TV give us an unhealthy body image stereotype too. Do you know how hard you have to work to get a body like those actors on True Blood or The Vampire Diaries? Try doing that when your blood vessels don't work anymore and your muscles are slowly starting to waste away.
Jessica Verday
#31. Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.
Mindy Kaling
#32. I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.
Elissa Schappell
#33. You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard ...
Morgan Matson
#34. I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
Maurice Sendak
#35. I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
Al Pacino
#36. Pushing too hard will only make things freeze up. How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
Daniel Keyes
#37. Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today's work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock.
Peter Andre
#39. I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.
David O. Russell
#40. Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.
Harry S. Truman
#41. Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.
Christopher Plummer
#42. It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
Rachael Ray
#43. The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.
Kevin Garnett
#44. Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.
Lee Gutkind
#45. I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.
Tom Rush
#46. If you haven't made any mistakes lately, then obviously you haven't been trying too hard.
Mark W. Boyer
#47. I think we're as different as land and water.'
'James and I were very different too.'
'You were? But you seem so good together, so much in harmony.' And so passionate, but Victoria bit back the too-intimate words.
'It's taken years and lots of hard work to develop that kind of unity.
Jody Hedlund
#48. For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
Joyce Cary
#49. This was where she discovered that intelligence, this wonderful gift, grows in silence, not in noise. It was here too that she learnt that a human mind, a truly human mind, is nurtured over time, with hard work and discipline.
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#50. I don't like flirting, and when I love someone, I always give everything, maybe too much. And then you have to work at it all the time. I mean, the first months are always great, but afterwards it becomes hard work. It's not as passionate and crazy.
Eva Green
#51. I feel like there are a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. I think it's too early to judge, and I don't think the gay community is in any way falling short.
Amy Ray
#52. I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.
Anna Kendrick
#53. I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#54. That is, they choose to be ill because being "normal" is too much like hard work.
Paulo Coelho
#55. The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.
Bill Barich
#56. I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!
Ana Ivanovic
#57. Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work."
Shay shrugged. "Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?
Scott Westerfeld
#58. It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.
Guy Ritchie
#59. Working smart is harder than working hard. It's just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.
Shane Snow
#60. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#62. There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.
Kate Reardon
#63. I think it took me a little while to be true to myself as a designer, and in some ways I'm still trying to do that. I have to choose things that come naturally to me. Whenever I challenge something too much or try too hard, it never quite works out.
Stella McCartney
#64. It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.
Jo Brand
#65. Distinguish yourself [ ... ] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get.
Karen Marie Moning
#66. Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.
Karen Essex
#67. When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not ... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.
Julianne Moore
#68. I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.
Paul Walker
#69. In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
Grace Jones
#70. ... I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
Orson Scott Card
#71. I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.'
Christopher McDougall
#72. Tim Russert is dead. But the room was alive. You can't work it too hard at a memorial service, obviously. It's the kind of thing people notice.
Mark Leibovich
#73. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard. Am I right?
Anonymous
#74. So: now a new year, a new beginning. I've vowed not to complain. I'm too good at it, and need to practice other skills. I've also vowed to work very hard ...
Claire Messud
#75. The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
Adam Lambert
#76. The hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.
Sue Sanders
#77. The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that ... and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing.
Karen Traviss
#78. Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
Billy Joel
#79. It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.
Jean Ferris
#80. My advice is: Don't take yourself too seriously, laugh a lot, enjoy your time with family, and appreciate the unique talents of others. Trust in God, love your neighbor, say you're sorry, forgive, and work hard.
Willie Robertson
#81. The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.
Seymour Papert
#82. I've certainly been very blessed. I can only say that I worked very hard in class and on set doing the best that I can at the moment. I was incredibly blessed with 'Battlestar' ... I tried to work my little butt off just to keep up with everybody else and not too many people kicked me.
Grace Park
#83. It's easy to be an actor at 8 or 9 in the morning, but it's really important to be focused and work hard at 6 and 7 at night, after you've been on the set for 10 or 12 hours. That time counts, too.
Clint Howard
#84. I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop themselves. Sometimes I've wondered what I could have done with their talent. On the other hand, the tag that I was too small and slow made me work hard.
Steve Largent
#85. Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?
Peter Shaffer
#86. I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.
Greg Norman
#87. Whenever she did, she gave it her all, Lord would take care of the rest. That's how she wanted us to live, too. To work hard, to preserve, to have faith, to serve and to love each others.
Lee Myung-bak
#88. It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'
Gwyneth Paltrow
#89. I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
John Cusack
#90. It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.
Nick Park
#91. While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.
Eli Broad
#92. I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
Rachel Platten
#93. I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working ... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.
Yogi Berra
#94. It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.
John Barrowman
#96. The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.
Russell Simmons
#97. I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#98. I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#99. After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop.
Sylvia Plath
#100. You're going to work some puppets for me. Marionettes. That sound too hard?" "Marionettes?
Sara Pennypacker
