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Quotes About Mental fatigue

I am not a great sleeper. I don't think I have ever slept 8 hours straight in the last 20 years.
~ Scott Kelly
I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.
~ Henry Thomas
Your mind indeed is tired. Your mind so tired that it can no longer work at all. You do not think. You dream. Dream all day long. Dream everything. Dream maliciously and incessantly. Don't you know that by now?
~ Patrick Hamilton
Tightly focused attention gets fatigued—much like an overworked muscle—when we push to the point of cognitive exhaustion. The signs of mental fatigue, such as a drop in effectiveness and a rise in distractedness and irritability, signify that the mental effort needed to sustain focus has depleted the glucose that feeds neural energy.
~ Daniel Goleman
Como el músculo sometido a un sobreesfuerzo, la atención intensamente focalizada también se fatiga, llegando incluso al punto del agotamiento cognitivo. Los signos de fatiga mental afectan a la eficacia y aumentan la distracción y la irritabilidad, lo que significa que el esfuerzo mental necesario para mantener el foco ha agotado la glucosa que precisa la energía neuronal.
~ Daniel Goleman
El bombardeo continuo de correos electrónicos, escritos y facturas –la "catástrofe completa" de la vida– nos arroja a un estado cerebral antitético
~ Daniel Goleman
Neuroscientists have discovered that unproductivity and loss of drive can result from decision overload.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs
~ William Faulkner
what looks like laziness is often exhaustion
~ Chip Heath & Dan Heath
If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.
~ Guy Pearce
I come home more exhausted after a day of emotional work on set than I've ever had in any sporting event I've played or anything. It's draining. But it's also part of the fun.
~ Mike Vogel
What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.
~ Thomas De Witt Talmage
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
~ Alan Cumming
Work is what horses die of
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In short, we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it is depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation—whether that's resisting a cookie, solving a puzzle, or doing anything else that requires effort. "The
~ Unknown
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
~ David Foster Wallace
No war is so sanguinary as the war of exhaustion.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Just as a muscle grows tired from exertion, the capacity for self-regulation becomes depleted after it is used. Also like a muscle, the capacity for self-regulation appears to grow stronger through regular exercise (after it recovers from the initial fatigue).
~ Christopher Peterson
Stupid. He was stupid. He was tired of being stupid.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
This is why human relationships usually take me beyond my limits. They wear me out. They scatter my thoughts. They make me worry about what I have just said and what they have just said, and how or if that all fits together, and what they will say next and what I will say then, and do I owe them something or is it their turn to owe me, and why do the rules change depending
~ Liane Holliday Willey
Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
If your mind is tired, go get work in the fields!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun