There's a price to pay for something to be successful and only with focus can you pay the price before you burn out.

为那些成功的事业付出是有代价的，而且你只有聚焦于一个你才能在你精力耗尽前付得起。

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If you have too many goals, you'll burn yourself out and may not accomplish any of them, leaving you feeling disappointed and defeated.

如果你的目标太多，那么只会精疲力尽，而且恐怕哪一个目标也完成不了，这样的结果就是感到失望和挫败。

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Think of your metabolism like a camp fire. If you don’t want a camp fire to burn out, you have to constantly add wood and logs to it.

试想，你的新陈代谢就像一团篝火，如果你不想它灭掉，你就得时不时地往里面添些木头柴火。

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And the cause of some thermodynamics have even been applied to economics, systems out of equilibrium, like big companies like Enron, you know, completely out of equilibrium, crash and burn.

热力学中的一些观点,甚至被应用到经济学中，非平衡态系统，比如像安永那样大公司,彻底偏离平衡态,最后破产了。

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If only you'd known you had another 50 years, that you weren't going to die young-- or James Dean, going to burn out fast and die young-- if only you'd realized you were going to live to the ripe old age of 97, you would have picked a different life for yourself.

如果你知道自己还剩下50年，你不会英年早逝-,或者说你不会油尽灯枯，英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97岁高龄，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。

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When you are asked to do more than you think you should, to do tasks beyond your capabilities or work more hours than your mind and body can take, you can quickly burn out.

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You'll burn out that way.

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You literally burn to death from the inside out -from wherever the radiation comes from.

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