Stanislaw Ulam Quotes

It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

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

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.

The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.

There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.

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.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

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

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

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

... too emotionally strung out.

It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.

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.

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

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.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.

The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.