Quotes About Mental fatigue

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

There was so much to do. No time for sleeping. But he was so, so tired.…

The unwise man is awake all night, and ponders everything over; when morning comes he is weary in mind, and all is a burden as ever. Hávamál

It's a funny thing. When you're tired, general cognitive ability drops. There's scientific evidence to back that up, no question. Because you're slacking off, some other part of your brain—the base, the lizard, the id, whatever you want to call it—tries to compensate. Eighty-five percent brain-dead, fifteen-percent instinctive genius.

An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

I've tried counting sheep like everyone recommends, but what tends to happen is that my brain thinks it's seen the same sheep twice and that messes up my count, and when I think there's no more sheep to count, another three will come running along and startle me. Or just as I think I've finished counting, an elephant comes running in. By this point I'm wide awake.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

MOM LIKED THE Ritalin. And she found it had a terrific and unexpected side effect—it helped her read. The day she first tried it, she was tired and uncomfortable and having trouble concentrating. She popped the Ritalin right before she sat down with Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, a fifteen-hundred-page book that she'd been attempting to read after a friend gave it to her.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Spending all day in a sterile office environment, I'm too mentally numb to do anything but consume meaningless media," he says.

I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

I know, and I appreciate that," says Dinah, getting up to extract a container of yogurt from the fridge, which completes her improvised dinner—"but I have to say that I am really, really tired of having to ask you to do things.

If all you do is work, you're unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what's worth extra effort and what's not. And you wind up just plain tired. No one makes sharp decisions when tired.

I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.

There are two ways that lack of sleep affects my play: I'll play too many hands and I'll lose the ability to effectively read my opponents.

After a basketball game, you're gonna be physically tired, but more mentally. Playoff time comes around, you have it all in your head.

I didn't expect to be so tired sometimes on stage. There are moments when you're so tired you could pretty much collapse.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.