Burnout Quotes

• Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

  Michael Gungor

  Long, Trying, Being Human

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• In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Long, Perspective

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• You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Healing

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

  Marissa Mayer

  Giving Up, Knowing, Resentment

  "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

  Arianna Huffington

  Ninety Nine, Culture, Where You Are

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• Understanding how to find the magic moments in your daily life is critical. If you subscribe to the philosophy that says, "My vacation will free me from burnout," then you`re waiting for a few days out of the year to make up for many days of stress. Instead, you have to be able to take mini-vacations on a daily basis.

  Tony Robbins

  Philosophy, Stress, Vacation

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• Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

  Sam Keen

  Optimism, Walking Dead, Soul

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• Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.

  Arianna Huffington

  Stress, Giving, Goal

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  Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

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• Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

  Richard Louv

  Powerful, Cost, Way

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• Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.

  Richard Blackaby

  Loneliness, Light, Leader

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• Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Rushing, Soul

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Men, Males

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

  Arianna Huffington

  Creativity, School, Opposites

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• Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

  Grant Morrison

  Grief, Writing, Joy

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Success is the ability to meet worthy goals, but it's also the ability to love and have compassion and the ability to get in touch with your creative center, to transform yourself toward more peaceful and just pursuits. I hope we redefine success. Otherwise, we'll see more of what we're already seeing - more aggression, more burnout, more Wall Street scandals, more war, more terrorism, more eco-destruction.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wall, War, Compassion

  "How A Video Game Could Make You A Better Man". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more burnout than real-world pilots, as they attempt to live in two worlds - home and battlefield - simultaneously. We all become overwhelmed until we learn to distinguish between data flows (like Twitter) that can only be dipped into, and data storage (like books and emails) that can be fully consumed.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Book, Home

  "Present Shock - Rushkoff". www.rushkoff.com.

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Swimming, Ultimate

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.

  Kirsten Dunst

  People, Film, Subjects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?

  Meg Cabot

  Believe, Thinking, Cells

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Heaven Sent”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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• Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Teaching, Schedules, Paperwork

  "Maybe Teaching Special Ed Doesn't Have To Be So Hard". "All Things Considered" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, kuer.org. January 15, 2017.

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