“Burnout is an attractive diagnosis for the self-aggrandizing; it suggests that one’s job is uniquely draining, almost to the point of a medical emergency.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“We work hard, even when we’re not in the mood. We keep going, even when our energy levels are running low.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Regardless of the reason, obviously managers should be doing their best to let their employees unplug. There have been countless studies on how bad it is for your mental health when you’re constantly logged on, and how vacations are most likely going to help you live longer.”— Gina Vaynshteyn, apartmenttherapy.com
“I’m afraid that there is no cure for burnout. After all, you can’t untoast toast.”— Ella Dawson, elladawson.com
“We might turn to self-care to sooth our stresses and also to boost our productivity, but, as the rise of burnout might suggest, self-care does not actually seem to be fixing burnout.”— Laura Havlin, dazeddigital.com
“I spent years terrified that website builders, automation, and machine learning would replace me. And I stuck it out long enough to be sitting her begging for website builders, automation, and machine learning to replace me”— breich, old.reddit.com
“People often say, 'I don’t know how you do it all,' and the answer it turns out is I neglect myself and so I’m not going to do that anymore.”— Alexander Chee, twitter.com
“For those facing climbing levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental-health issues, the ability to take time away from work to recover — even while forgoing pay — can seem appealing. But what exactly does such a leave entail? And is it a good idea?”— Ludmila Leiva, refinery29.com
“Exhausted or not, we’re all going to be back at our desks tomorrow, shoveling salad sluice out of bowls into our yawning mouths while trying to work up the energy to do something mundane. So, short of moving to France, where it's illegal to e-mail after hours, what can you do about burnout?”— Benjy Hansen-Bundy, gq.com
“We’re not feckless teens anymore; we’re grown-ass adults, and the challenges we face aren’t fleeting, but systemic.”— Anne Helen Petersen, buzzfeednews.com
“Yo, we just took out one sicko yesterday! I'm not emotionally prepared to work for another psychopath.”— Courtney A. Kemp, Vladimir Cvetko, Tommy Egan, Joseph Sikora, imdb.com
“There are also changes at the macro brain level. The areas associated with this trait greatly overlap with the brain areas that support empathy! Also, they have a hyperactive insula, which explains their heightened awareness of their inner emotional states and bodily sensations. This hyperactivity e…”— Marwa Azab, psychologytoday.com
“It is not surprising that this trait is found in artists, poets and is linked to giftedness, creativity and empathy. At the same time, a Highly Sensitive Person is at a higher risk of depression and burnout, because they get easily overwhelmed. This is why it is critical to know if you are a HSP, so…”— Marwa Azab, psychologytoday.com
“There are biological reasons for all the components of this trait. A HSP’s brain is wired differently and the nervous system is highly sensitive with a lower threshold for action (2). This hyper-excitability contributes to increased emotional reactivity, a lower threshold for sensory information (e.…”— Marwa Azab, psychologytoday.com
“And what I find interesting is that if you had asked me that morning, ‘How are you, Arianna?,’ I would have said, ‘Fine,’ because it was normal running on empty. Think about how aware we are of how much battery remains on our smartphone, but we don’t have that same awareness about ourselves.”— Ariana Huffington, thecut.com
“I do worry sometimes about whether I'm going to burn out. Not burn myself out, but burn my art out.”— Idris Elba, facebook.com
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com