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Overworking Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“When you truly love what you do, not working is hard work.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: hard-work, holiday, overwork, overworking, passion, relax, relaxing, rest, resting, work
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Richie Norton
“Overworking is the Black Plague of the 21st Century. Leave the office on time by using the time you have effectively. An executive at a Fortune 100 told me that to him, if you stay at work late, that means 'you’re slow.”
― Richie Norton
tags: 21st-century, black-plague, executive, fortune-100, late, overworking, smart-work, work
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Richie Norton
“Overworking is the Black Plague of the 21st Century.”
― Richie Norton
tags: 21st-century-quotes, black-plague, hard-work, overworking, stress, time, urgency, vacation, work, workaholic
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“Overworking leads to exhaustion.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
tags: despair, health, healthy-living, inspiration, life, living, motivational, overwork, overworking, stress, wise-words, work
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“The effects of overworking;
You forget which day it is.
You think fast than what you write.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
tags: advice, daily-inspiration, daily-life, despair, distress, emotional, experience, forgetfulness, healthy, healthy-habits, inspiring, lessons-learnt, life, life-lessons, lifestyle, mindset, nervous-break-through, overworking, positivity, psychology, stress, thinking, thoughts, wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita, work, work-balance, work-life
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“We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can’t feed the living.”
― James Jean-Pierre
tags: life-quotes, loved-ones, making-a-decision, overworking, success-quotes
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Herman Melville
“It is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!”
― Herman Melville
tags: employees, employers, management, overworked, overworking, wasting-talent
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Mungi Ngomane
“Respectful boundaries are needed so that we can look after ourselves and continue to give to others. After all, nobody can be expected to pour from an empty cup.”
― Mungi Ngomane, Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way
tags: boundaries, care, overworking
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“The effect of overworking; we miss sacred moments.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
tags: family, happiness, joy, life, moments, overworking, wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita, wise-words, work
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“The effects of overworking; you forget which day it is and unable to think straight.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
tags: advice, daily-life, healthy, healthy-living, inspiring, job, life, life-lessons, lifestyle, mindset, overworking, thinking, wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita, work, work-balance, work-ethics
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“Do not waste your life over working. Live a fuller sacred life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
tags: life, motivational, overworking, sacred, self-realization, strength, waste
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“Do not waste your life over working.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
tags: encouragement, hope, overworking, positive-thinking, self-help, stress, wise-words, work
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“It is easier for people to accept slavery if they realize that they actually have paid for it. - On Slavery.”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows: Conversations with the Light
tags: debt, overworking, slavery-quotes, work-quotes
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Steven Magee
“During my time at the W. M. Keck Observatory, I had formed the opinion that overworking workers was part of the company's toxic culture.”
― Steven Magee
tags: altitude, astronomy, culture, kea, keck, mauna, osha, overworking, tmt, toxic
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Overworking doing what you love is way more revitalizing than resting from doing what you hate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: do-what-you-love, employment, job-you-hate, job-you-love, love-what-you-do, overwork, overworking, passion, rest, work
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Working for yourself does not make working too hard any less foolish.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: burnout, employment, hard-work, in-praise-of-idleness, overwork, overworked, overworking, rest, self-employment, work-ethnic
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Steven Magee
“I reported under-staffing and overworking to my electrical utility company employer every day. It remained unchanged until I left.”
― Steven Magee
tags: electrical-utility-company, employer, every-day, health-and-safety, i-reported, osha, overworking, remained-unchanged, under-staffing, until-i-left
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