Burned Out Quotes

38 quotes by 33 authors

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are… — Scott Adams
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the… — Francis Collins
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. — Itzhak Perlman
The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay… — Frank Smith
The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground… — Tony Hsieh
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him… — Jack Handey
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed,… — Nicholas D. Kristof
But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition,… — Carl von Clausewitz
You donâ€™t need to be burned out to go on hiatus. — Danielle LaPorte
And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit. — Lee Majors
I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children. — Lee Majors
Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I… — Juliana Hatfield
If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter. — Juliana Hatfield
Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business,… — Chris O'Donnell
Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a… — Gil Gerard
I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel… — Zach Galifianakis
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener.… — Zach Galifianakis
It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out… — Dan Povenmire

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