Working Too Hard Quotes:

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Business Life, Inspiring Business

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

- Billy Joel

topic: Work, Heart, Giving, Working Too Hard, Heart Attack

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

source: "Traveling with the Stars: Jill Scott". Interview with Kelly Carter, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 23, 2009.

topic: Jobs, Safari, Overwhelmed, Working Too Hard

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

topic: Thinking, Research, Action, One Hour, Working Too Hard

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

topic: Wind, People, Neurosis, Working Too Hard

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

topic: Mistake, Hands, Perfect, Working Too Hard, Perfect Conditions

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

- Will Rogers

topic: Dream, Money, Trying, Working Too Hard

Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.

- Henry Louis Gates

topic: Stars, Mean, Angel, Working Too Hard

Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are the ones that are most loaded with opportunity because they have the most - you know, the difference between potential and kinetic energy? - they have the most potential energy, so to delve into that gives you the largest combustion, the most interest. I don't mean for the audience. I mean for us. Everyone here is working too hard to do stuff we don't care about.

- Jon Stewart

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mean, Opportunity, Differences, Kinetic Energy, Working Too Hard