Overwork Quotes

• The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Danger, Peril, Inactivity

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• We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

  John Lubbock

  People, Worry, Anxiety

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Work, Men, World

  "Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918)" by Rudyard Kipling, 1918.

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• Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time. Don't try to do tomorrow's or next week's work today. It's not the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that count. To achieve this "habit of success," you need only to focus on the most important tasks and succeed in each small task of each day.

  Earl Nightingale

  Successful, Next Week, Years

  "How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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• In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Health, Brain, Half

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• It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.

  Aldus Manutius

  Work

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• I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Work, Believe, Men

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• We know that our bodies suffer from overwork and lack of leisure: anxiety, mental-health issues - we're not designed to work more than about 40 hours a week. Our systems wear out and the quality of the work suffers. After 50 hours, it crashes and burns.

  Katrina Onstad

  Anxiety, Suffering, Quality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Self, Trying

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• No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

  Charles Lamb

  Work, Mind, Prey

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.3502, Delphi Classics

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• Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

  George Orwell

  Real, Men, Roots

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Kids, Pace, Young

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• The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Ruins, Interest

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• Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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• Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.

  Maurice Bigelow

  Numbers, Brain, Limits

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• Overwork tires; underwork wearies.

  Francis Balfour-Browne

  Entrepreneur, Tire

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• It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stupidity, Poverty, Humans

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• It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

  Jeff Bridges

  Trying, Screw Ups, Kind

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

  Robert Frost

  Work, Champion, Dies

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

  Almeida Garrett

  Ignorance, Men, Order

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• Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

  Paul Tournier

  Blue, Years, Vitality

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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• There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

  Thomas Merton

  Fighting, Violence, Form

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.81, Image

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• I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.

  Paul Giamatti

  Sweet, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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