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Overwork tires; underwork wearies. -- Francis Balfour-Browne
It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something. -- Jeff Bridges
I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself. -- Freddie Hubbard
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. -- Charles Evans Hughes
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. -- John Lubbock
It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork. -- Aldus Manutius
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity. -- Thomas A. Edison
A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork. -- Robert Frost
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. -- Rudyard Kipling
No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food. -- Charles Lamb
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time. -- Mark Twain
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. -- George Orwell
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork. -- Thomas Merton
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence. -- Josef Pieper
I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people. -- Christopher Hitchens
When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties. -- Mark Hanna
A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm. -- Pema Chodron
It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork. -- Anton Chekhov
I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it. -- Paul Giamatti
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another. -- Tom Tryon
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on. -- Julia Cameron
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union. -- Joseph Jaworski
Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them ... -- Gene Stratton-Porter
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. -- Charles Evans Hughes
It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me. -- Eric Maskin
Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television. -- Joko Beck
We fail to enjoy the sacred moment, when we overwork. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them. -- Bear Bryant
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. -- Harold J. Seymour
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. -- C. S. Lewis
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality. -- Paul Tournier

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