Break Quote by Alton Tobey

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my…

— Penelope Cruz

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your…

— Peter Megargee Brown

I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.

— Sterling K. Brown

I've learned how to exist and get work done when you're exhausted. I've finally gotten to that level, because at first I had no…

— GloZell

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely

— Anonymous

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I…

— Robert Caro

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

— Gordon T. Smith

When I stopped doing ALL the work, some people became absent in my life! It's a good thing because it makes me appreciate those…

— Nishan Panwar

Sometimes I would go home from work and just stare at the wall for a couple of hours. But, I can't complain. Whatever knocks…

— Lily Rabe

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

— Henri Nouwen

Throughout all of life's little interruptions and distractions, I prided myself on keeping my work focused and relatively unscathed.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams