#exhaust

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#exhausting #far #i #know #most

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#make #overtime #show #something #stinks

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. ↗

— John Lubbock

#exhausting #more #than #week #work

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. ↗

— George MacDonald

#best work #dregs #exhaustion #god #i

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#exhaust #forward #go #i #i think

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#best #blessed #cool #exhausting #guys

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental