Best 14 quotes in «workaholic quotes» category

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.

Everyone has a need to feel a sense of self-worth and self-actualization – that he or she believes his or her existence is meaningful. Unfortunately, the Industrial Revolution wrongfully instilled a social norm that self-worth should primarily come from work ethic – if you work hard, you will be rewarded. But because of AI, jobs based on repetitive tasks will soon be gone forever. We need to redefine the idea of work ethic for the new workforce paradigm. The importance of a job should not be solely dependent on its economic value but should also be measured by what it adds to society. We should also reassess our notion that longer work hours are the best way to achieve success and should remove the stigma associated with service professions.

Don’t accept a life that has been molded for you by others because eventually you’ll succumb to its falseness.

I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.

Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for them to learn to relate in healthy and loving ways. However, when we are driven by shame, we don't just fear losing a relationship, but we live in terror that if we let anyone really get to know us, we would never be desired, pursued, or loved. In us, that fear can be worked out in the development of unhealthy denial, workaholism, perfectionism, chameleon-type behavior, and sadly, even revictimization... When we live in denial or present a false self out of fear... we will do anything to be accepted by people... When we begin to tell the truth about what happened to us we also begin the process of turning about from this type of idolatry... When we begin to tear away our layers of illegitimate shame... When our own vision is not distorted by our shame we can discern what was our responsibility and what wasn't.

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.

If you enjoy being at work more than being at home it doesn't mean you are a workaholic, it simply means you are in love with your work and you worship it.

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.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Mais, ce n'est pas un homme, c'est un champignon!

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.

Work will be your mother, she whispered; it will lead you through dark days; it will clear you a level place to rest at last.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.