“It’s that feeling when you make it home Friday night and pour yourself a drink or a glass of wine and feel like the blood has drained out of you… I actually think burnout is the wrong description of it. I think it’s ‘burn up. Physiologically, that is what you are doing because of the chronic stress being placed on your body.”

Richard Boyatzis (2006) cited in: "BURNOUT: Though no one is immune, middle managers are most at risk in a weak economy in which staff cuts add pressure on remaining workers" in: The Plain Dealer, February 13, 2006.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It’s that feeling when you make it home Friday night and pour yourself a drink or a glass of wine and feel like the blo…" by Richard Boyatzis?
Richard Boyatzis photo
Richard Boyatzis 22
American business theorist 1946

Related quotes

Tanith Lee photo
Lea Michele photo
Andy Warhol photo
Louise L. Hay photo
George Harrison photo
Margaret Atwood photo
Karl Pilkington photo

“I was walking home the other night, and I was thinking about it, and do you worry that when you're old you will be on your own?”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Xfm 10 November 2001
On Stephen Merchant

Scott Lynch photo
Pearl S.  Buck photo

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"My Neighbor's Son"
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Related topics