Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.
I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also have been many times when I felt the exhaustion - when it was physically painful, but I just couldn't stop.
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.
Evidence exhausts the truth.
If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.
An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.
Don't want to slump over the oars.
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.
About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I thought I couldn't last much longer... and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine.
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
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