Quotes About Working Too Hard

#1. As self-possessed as he is, when he's tired from working too hard, his whole demeanor softens with vulnerability ... which makes me want to tuck him right beneath my heart and hold on tight.

Nina Lane

#2. Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.

Jack Canfield

#3. I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

Mel Brooks

#4. I was working too hard to be afraid.

Cheryl Strayed

#5. Just relax. Everyone around you is working too hard.

Bauvard

#6. My shoulder pain had been lack-of-oxygen pain. Heart-working-too-hard pain.

John Green

#7. Marissa Mayer, who became one of Silicon Valley's most famous working mothers not long after she took over as Yahoo's CEO in 2012, says that burnout isn't caused by working too hard, but by resentment at having to give up what really matters to you.

Eric Schmidt

#8. I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

Ben Elliot

#9. Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

Virginia Woolf

#10. For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.

Jill Scott

#11. If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.

Reggie Watts

#12. If it feels like work, you're working too hard.

Christopher McDougall

#13. Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

Billy Joel

#14. I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

Howard Hughes

#15. Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Will Rogers

#16. Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.

Jami Attenberg

#17. Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.

Mark Billingham

#18. Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings
more satisfaction in the end.

Megan Hart

#19. We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

Harold Ramis

#20. I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#21. Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

John Smith

#22. I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.

Gabrielle Giffords

#23. Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

Peg Bracken

#24. It's difficult to find a genuine weakness that makes you appear competent. For instance, telling your interviewer that your weakness is working so hard that you have trouble prioritizing your family life is a little too cliche and comes across as disingenuous.

Travis Bradberry

#25. Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

Dennis Franz

#26. Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

John Conyers

#27. I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

Imogen Heap

#28. I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

Allyson Felix

#29. 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

#30. Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won't see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for.

Daniel Willey

#31. Worried, I touched the jacket's sleeve. "You think it's too much?" I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I'd had this conversation with ex-roommates before.

Kim Harrison

#32. 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

#33. I do think my old fella wasn't much of a ... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

Noel Gallagher

#34. For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your means.

Susan Brooks

#35. It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.

Steve Martin

#36. 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

#37. The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

Elbert Hubbard

#38. But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Paton

#39. Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

Thomas Perez

#40. People are trying so hard to live through their children. And the children keep trying so hard to live up to their parents, or live them down. Everybody's living through or for or against somebody else. It doesn't make too much sense, and it isn't working too well.

Ross Macdonald

#41. Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.

David Blunkett

#42. Working smart is harder than working hard. It's just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.

Shane Snow

#43. Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

Salma Hayek

#44. Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what's the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God's Spirit.

Ann Spangler

#45. My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

Cynthia Nixon

#46. 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

#47. 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