Mike Yaconelli Quotes

It's a sin to be tired.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

I'm knackered. I'm knackered all the time. My stupid, tiny children wake me up at 5:48 A.M. every single morning.

It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I'm so tired of running.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

You can only stay up all night so many times.

I get tired of the traveling.

I'm tired a lot. I travel a lot.

I do believe in the idea of a historic person named Jesus that was a kind of chill dude who was just telling people to chill and be nice to each other. And he got penalized for that.

Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

I don't want to have to be taken out because I'm tired or I need a breather.

First year, I was in a real high pace running around and I couldn't pace myself.

I am overworked sometimes. I'm tired sometimes. I'm sleepy sometimes. And social media allows me to show you that I'm human, too.

If you don't get tired or bored then there is something wrong with you - you are not human. People maybe don't realize that. Players try to hide it and try to be the perfect role model, but it is not always so easy.

I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.