Quotes About Draining

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

Everything I did felt heavy and difficult—drying the dishes, kneeling for evening prayers, even pulling down the sheets to get into bed.

As adults, they often become trapped in a vicious cycle of accepting responsibility for everything, inevitably falling short, feeling guilty and inadequate, and then redoubling their efforts. This is a draining, depleting cycle that leads to an ever-increasing sense of failure.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

Militant nationalism needed regular transfusions of young blood to keep it alive, because it led a kind of vampiric half-life, imaginatively and emotionally draining but not visible in any mirror held up to contemporary Irish reality.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

Conley was not, as they say in recovery-speak, a "jackpot drinker," prone to big, messy binges that leave disasters in their wake. "It was more of a controlled, low-level draining of my energies and output," he says. "I could feel my songwriting falling off. I was just having a harder time finishing things, really getting a little stuck.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

The Isaac Chilemba fight was draining.

The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to his death in 1987 at the age of sixty-three.

He pointed out the negatives in any situation—and in her. Trying to fulfill someone like that was exhausting, because there were negatives in every situation.

Even if you're a giver who likes to give, it's exhausting being married to a taker. A taker will suck the life out of you in many ways, and in one sense undercut your ability to minister to others.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

And because the PageRanks are defined as proportions, they have to add up to 1 when summed over the whole network. This conservation law suggests another, perhaps more palpable, way to visualize PageRank. Picture it as a fluid, a watery substance that flows through the network, draining away from bad pages and pooling at good ones. The algorithm seeks to determine how this fluid distributes itself across the network in the long run.

Just contemplating the energy required to make small talk tired him.

The crowning with thorn and roses, the piercing of the flesh by thorns, was a traditional message that Izabella did not expect to have these morsels returned to her. They were sacrifices. Because of this, the supping, the draining of their flesh, would be of holy intention.

How could there be new life in his beard when it was draining everywhere else?

It's mentally draining to be on 100% of the time on both ends of the floor, especially when you're the team's undisputed shot creator.

Acting, really, is a lot of mental fatigue, emotional fatigue, concentration... it's mentally draining.

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

A workday driven by the shallow, from a neurological perspective, is likely to be a draining and upsetting day, even if most of the shallow things that capture your attention seem harmless or fun.

repeated interaction with this darkness can become a source of draining negativity—a steep price that many don't even realize they're paying to support their compulsive connectivity.

It follows that to embrace deep work in your own career, and to direct it toward cultivating your skill, is an effort that can transform a knowledge work job from a distracted, draining obligation into something satisfying—a portal to a world full of shining, wondrous things.

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.