Gary Hamel

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

American Businessman

Steven Blum

Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.

American Actor

Michael Wolff

Bieber is the first mega YouTube star, born inexplicably out of a novel and disruptive medium. It has, of course, always been so for pop culture: feverish bubbles, silly novelty acts and disconcerting new forces impose themselves on a reluctant and condescending media.

American Author

Susan Orlean

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

American Journalist

Perfume Genius

I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.

American Musician

Denise Lewis

I really wasn't well - feeling feverish then cold - so I went to the doctor to find out if I had flu and they did a blood test. I thought: 'Okay, this is it. I'm pre-menopausal.' Then Steve said: 'Are you sure you're not pregnant?

British Athlete

Florence Nightingale

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

English Activist

Jim Crace

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

English Writer

Charli XCX

When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.

British Musician

William Ellery Channing

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

American Writer

Indicates someone might be sick and could have an actual fever.

Illness Indicator

Describes a personal sensation, not always a true fever measured with a thermometer.

Subjective Feeling

Depicts a high level of excitement or energy within a person or group setting.

Energetic Buzz

While it implies energy, it can also suggest anxiety or uncontrollable emotions.

Not Always Positive

Shows an intense, often chaotic approach to work, likely due to a looming deadline.

Effort Under Pressure

Suggests working hard but potentially in a disordered or ineffective way.

Lack of Organization

Feverish work implies an unsustainable pace that cannot be maintained for long.

Not Sustainable

 and causes blood vessels to widen, two responses that increase heat and trigger the sweating response. And sweating also occurs when we get sick. When we're feverish, we sweat because infections stimulate the hypothalamus to increase muscle activity,

Why do we sweat? - John...

 and his friends come to visit and they find him dejected and feverish, having heart palpitations, strange sores breaking out on his body. Doctors are called, and they think it's so serious that prayers are said for him in the local church.

The history of human...

 this is one of them contrary to the feverish promises of turn of the 20th century futurists the romance of the road is it's driving Humanity down a dead-end

Feverish

Illness Indicator

Subjective Feeling

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