35 Quotes About Workaholic

Time can't be given. But it can be shared

Работа поглощала её целиком. Хотелось каждый вечер, вернувшись домой, находить там свежеприготовленный фруктовый салат, билеты в театр и секс.

Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.

Work can sometimes be very tricky. It gives with one hand and takes away with the other. It gives you money and takes away your time. It offers you wealth and steals your happiness.

In the grief that comes with recognizing what happened to us, we often feel there is nowhere to turn for solace…We do things to keep it away, such as becoming overly busy or using drugs or alcohol to numb our feelings. When we are caught up in resistance, we do not feel hope, but when we surrender to our sadness fully, hope trickles in.

Nu mai rezist. Seara, când mă duc să mă culc, sunt zdrobit. Dacă aș fi un om serios, mi-aș da demisia. Dar nu fac nici asta. Zâmbesc! Zâmbesc tuturor. Și nebunilor. Cui vrea să se uite la mine. Zâmbesc în loc să urlu. Dacă aș urla, probabil m-aș liniști. Aș avea în sfârșit un somn bun. Dar așa, zâmbetul mă obosește. Mă distruge. Voi intra în cămașă de forță zâmbind.

Don't marry a shopaholic if you're not prepared to be a workaholic.

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.

Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied ourselves—becoming overachievers & workaholics—as self esteem…But whenever our inner feeling did not match our outer surface, we were doing ourselves a disservice…If stopping to rest meant being barraged with this discrepancy, no wonder we were reluctant to cease our obsessive activity.