Quotes tagged ‘Workaholic’

“Zoey Barkow: I just want you to know, I think it's super great that I'll be with you all day. I can tell you're somebody who, you know, lives the job, and that's totally me. Totally... Jackie Peyton: OK, a quick question. Zoey Barkow: Sure. Jackie Peyton: Shut up. Zoey Barkow: Is that the question?”

— Liz Brixius, Linda Wallem, Evan Dunsky, Jackie Peyton, Edie Falco, imdb.com

“Getting away from my work pretty much equates to paralysis, I simply don’t know what to do with myself when I am away. I hope the same for others, because I’ve always said the world looks very different, when you’re pushing yourself every second you’ve got. Have I succeeded? I’ve succeeded in being…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“They told me how despite having help in the house she would get up every day to cook and clean and work. And that it was impossible to stop her despite her organs failing one after another. Up until her body stopped working she didn’t. I started to realize I of all people understood her the most. Wo…”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“No joke, in a perverse level of dedication I planned to be working while my mother was on her deathbed. Was this my way of not dealing with it?”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“Workaholic? Please. That’s sounds like something lazy people would say.”

— Monty Oum, montyoum.net

“If I’m not working, I’m not happy. That’s it. That’s the prerequisite for me for happiness.”

— Donna Tartt, telegraph.co.uk

“I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”

— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com