We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

When you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.