#exhaust

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#attributes #exhausted #get #one thing #profession

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#built #cause #cents #day #exhaustion

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#amidst #been #difficulty #done #duty

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it! ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#because #better #concise #done #everyone

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#americans #decline #defeat #docility #exhaustion

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#best #between #day #difficult #exhausting

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player. ↗

— Chad Smith

#avenues #better #brother #california #detroit

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#exhausted #healthy #i #stay #trying

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#energetic #exhausting #find #life #lots