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• Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

  Jon Gordon

  Tired, Journey, Bored

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.

  Bill Lee

  Baseball, Thinking, Years

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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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• I would rather burn out than rust out.

  Amy Carmichael

  Rust

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• I hear that players tend to burn out of basketball, but I absolutely never had that experience myself. There were many times in my life where I got cut from a team I wanted to make, or didn't get playing time in high school, and even into college. But setbacks always inspired me to work harder, spend more time in the gym, play more, learn more, and watch more basketball.

  Ashley Graham

  Basketball, Team, Hard Work

  Source: awesomesportsproject.com

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• It's really important to keep sponsoring young people so the audience gets used to them and starts enjoying them. They're the only way your show can keep going, otherwise it's going to burn out in one or two years. Hopefully you're creating your headliners of the future.

  B. J. Porter

  Creating, Years, Two

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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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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• I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.

  Tyra Banks

  Retirement, Jobs, Hate

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

  Van Jones

  Mad, Outrage, Should

  Source: www.ebony.com

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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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• 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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• You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.

  Vera Brosgol

  Ideas, Drawing, Long

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.

  Rose McGowan

  Fighting, People, Hearing

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think guys overtrain and they burn out. And also just knowing what your body needs. Again, I think rest is really important.

  Andre Reed

  Thinking, Knowing, Guy

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces every challenge. Then, like any other overworked cylinder, he starts to sputter and behave erratically. Eventually, he burns out altogether.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Decision, Challenges, Bishops

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• [Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

  Junot Diaz

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• 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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• So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

  Jesse Jackson

  Stars, Bright Star

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• I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

  David Lynch

  Tree, Christmas Love, Painting

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• There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Get Well, Book, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.282

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• There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. Maybe you train really hard on a sport climbing and get tunnel vision for a while, but as soon as you burn out a bit, you concentrate on another aspect, like traveling. You see the world through the vehicle of climbing.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Sports, Tunnels, Climbing

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• I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book.

  Maggie Nelson

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

  Cliff Burton

  Bored

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• Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

  Dorothy Day

  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  "On Pilgrimage".

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