Burn Out Quotes - Page 2

• Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

  Tug McGraw

  Years, Space, Guy

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• Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.

  Joel Salatin

  Struggle, Years, Land

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• I have no fear; I have nothing to lose. I'd rather burn out than fade away, and I would rather go out in a blaze of glory on my own terms than let anybody dictate anything to me in my career. I had the chance to wrestle The Undertaker [on Smackdown in 2013], and one thing I took away from it was that he looked me in the eye and said, 'Trust your instincts because you've got great instincts.'

  Dean Ambrose

  Eye, Careers, Chance

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• The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

  Craig Johnson

  Anger, Tanks, Problem

  Craig Johnson (2004). “The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery”, p.188, Penguin

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• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

  John Lennon

  Hero, People, Appreciate

  Playboy interview, January 1981.

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• He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Book, Math, Thinking

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• I think there's two kinds of love. One kind of love burns so hot that it burns out before you get a chance to enjoy it. The other love is one that lifts you and makes you better than you were before.

  Tara Brown

  Love Is, Thinking, Two

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• Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Needs, Boring, One Thing

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Doubt, Trying, Obstacles

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• Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Grief, Men

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

  Robert Adams

  Artist, Talking, Political

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• I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.

  Miranda Lambert

  Jobs, Want

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• Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Fire, Vanity

  1595 John of Gaunt, to Richard. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.31-4.

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• To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light - I think that's pretty petty, personally.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Giving Up, Thinking

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• With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

  Douglas Coupland

  Clueless, Years, Knowing

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• So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

  Jason Gann

  Crazy, Pet, Hollywood

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

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• Let me burn out for God. After all,
  whatever God may appoint, prayer
  is the great thing. Oh, that I might
  be a man of prayer!

  Henry Martyn

  Prayer, Men, May

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• As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.

  Ed Robertson

  Rocks, People, Band

  "From "One Week" to 14 Albums: The Barenaked Ladies Still Rocking Strong and Silly After 27 Years". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I keep working. I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

  Paul Walker

  Together, Actors, Wave

  Source: movieweb.com

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• You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Baseball, School

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• I would rather burn out than rust out.

  Amy Carmichael

  Rust

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• What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "The Tavis Smiley SHow", www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.

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• I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.

  Lynne Truss

  Jobs, Mean, Effort

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• A lot of people these days are too ambitious; their sights are set too high at the start and they end up diving in too deep, quitting their day job too soon. They move to Vegas or wherever, make an all-or-nothing commitment before they're ready, and burn out.

  Phil Ivey

  Jobs, Moving, Commitment

  Source: cardplayerlifestyle.com

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• My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

  Normandi Ellis

  Light, Flames, Shining

  Normandi Ellis (2009). “Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead”, Red Wheel/Weiser

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