Charles Churchill Quotes

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

A lot of times, fighters get not only physically tired but mentally exhausted. It's like a chess match - you're thinking of offense and defense at the same time. It's almost exhausting to think about it. After a while, you just go, 'I'll move my pawn.' A lot of times in fights, people get exhausted, and they're just sick of trying to focus on it.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

... too emotionally strung out.

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.

The thought of having sclerosis of the synapses is alarming. I wonder if in later life I will pay the price for having overstimulated my mental apparatus in my twenties.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.

Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.