“When you give of yourself, it's draining.” — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Quote

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

When you've been on the road and you just get off a flight and you're super tired but you have to do a couple of hours of maths homework, it does get draining.

When you approach the world with such vulnerability and openness, people return that energy. It's draining, but it fills me with a purpose. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

These seasons, as you get older, they just are so long and draining.

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.