Leo Tolstoy Quotes

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

I don't like closed systems.

It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms.

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

I hate when I get stiff, and I really notice that.

I think if you're stressed, it shows in every part of you; how you carry yourself, which then affects your pose, how you hold your face, which then makes you look stressed and so nothing looks relaxed.

I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

We are tyrannized by our options.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.