Fatigue Quotes - Page 4

• Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sleep, Draught

  Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint (1999). “Jacob's Room”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There's digital fatigue. When you can do everything, you can actually do nothing.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Digital, Can Do

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

  Rumi

  Wine, Conformity, Existence

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• I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Thinking, Views

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Home

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• Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.

  Avital Ronell

  Running, Home, Winning

  Avital Ronell (2002). “Stupidity”, p.3, University of Illinois Press

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• Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

  Harvey Mackay

  Athlete, Winning, Skills

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• Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Thinking, Two, Three

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 2: "Student Years", p. 34, 1991.

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• Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Block, Mind, Flow

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• Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

  William James

  Life, Happiness, Movement

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.105, Harvard University Press

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• The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.

  Seth Godin

  Perseverance, Determination, People

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.62, Penguin

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• The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Overcoming, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Anxiety, Feelings, Matter

  Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.30, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Bad Day, Passion

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• Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

  Socrates

  Exercise, Mind, Delight

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• Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cycling, Hands, Ties

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• Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.

  Paul Pierce

  Team, Thinking, Winning

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• Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

  Tom Rath

  Stress, Creativity, Hands

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.37, Missionday, LLC

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• At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

  Anjelica Huston

  Looks, Mouths, Shapes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

  Walter Russell

  Successful, Men, Creative

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Writing, India

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• In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.

  Paul Valery

  Eye, Reflection, Irritation

  "Collected Works", vol. 1,("Recollection"), 1972.

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• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Past, Magic Moments

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce'  s, fatigue et tension de me  moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).

  Roland Barthes

  Memories, Doe, Excess

  1977 Fragments d'un discours amoureux.

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