Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I just can't relax. That's my problem.

Life is stressful.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

When I was in high school, there was a lot of pressure on me. I felt like I had to be perfect.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

Me, I don't want to put the pressure on myself.

I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

I don't take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.