Exhausting Quotes - Page 12

• Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

  Arthur Miller

  Artist, Temptation, Trying

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• Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

  Veikko Karvonen

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

  B. F. Skinner

  Science, Technology, Dedication

  "Reflections on Behaviorism and Society". Book by B. F. Skinner, 1978.

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Race, Long

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• There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it.

  Dominic Cooper

  Sorry, Talking, Cameras

  "Dominic Cooper Talks NEED FOR SPEED, Fulfilling His Childhood Dream of Doing a Racing Movie, the Stunts, WARCRAFT, FLEMING, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Danger lurks when we divide ourselves with expressions such as "my private life," "my professional life," or even "my best behavior." Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension....Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives. When we covenant to follow the Lord and obey His commandments, we accept His standards in every thought, action, and deed.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Integrity, Live Life, Expression

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• The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Daughter, Husband

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.95, Anchor

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• As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be - there was actually one day when we never went to bed.

  Glenn Close

  Differences, One Day, Thrill

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Compassion, Effort

  William Ellery Channing (1849). “Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings”, p.68

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• A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

  Kenneth Clark

  Writing, Fire, Burning

  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Martin Dieterle, Kenneth Clark, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (1996). “Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875): late paintings”

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