Quotes About Burnout

Burnout is being overwhelmed by work. Boreout is being underwhelmed by work.

I was the perfect person to have a burnout because I was not listening to my body at all.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.

I was a kinesiology major in college, which is exercise science. Then, I was either going to get my Ph.D. or go to medical school, but I was kind of burned out after school.

Music should be fun. If it's not fun, then you're going to get burned out; you're not going to give the best show.

I can completely understand that whole burnout thing.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

Normally it was not until the latter half of a course that Gold lost interest in his subject matter and starting disliking his students. This term it was happening at the outset.

My God, the sense of fatigue…

Burnout makes us angry because we recognize deep down inside that being drained and exhausted is not normal. We become angry with the people pressuring us, when in reality we allow ourselves to be pressured.

Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick.

Edna St Vincent Millay said: My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – It gives a lovely light.

Without a complete view of sin, people can burn out in their pursuit of pleasure.

he was now feeling burnt out to the point of carbonization.

I'm working myself to death.

Burnout is a real risk, especially now when there is so much news. I take real breaks, put my phone down, get out in to the countryside and ignore the news - even if its just for a few hours.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.

We burn out not because we don't care but because we don't grieve. We burn out because we have allowed our hearts to become so filled with loss that we have no room left to care.

Protecting ourselves from loss rather than grieving and healing our losses is one of the major causes of burnout. Very few of the professionals I have treated for burnout actually came in saying that they were burned out. I don't think most of them knew. The most common thing I've been told is, 'There's something wrong with me. I don't care anymore. Terrible things happen in front of me and I feel nothing.