I’m a workaholic. Before long I’m traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

In this remark, Gabor frames overwork not as productive “drive” but as a self-fueling cycle: the more she works, the more she runs on anxious momentum (“nervous energy”) rather than rest or genuine replenishment. The image suggests a body and mind operating on adrenaline—effective in the short term, but unsustainable. By calling it “incredibly exhausting,” she punctures the glamour sometimes attached to constant activity, implying that compulsive work can hollow out wellbeing and leave a person functioning on stress alone. The quote resonates as an early, plainspoken articulation of burnout: high output powered by tension, followed by depletion.