Patrick Lencioni Quotes

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Sometimes, I have played something that psychologically sticks with me, that's opposite of where I am. I guess I have a lot of anger in me.

Private life is always, at certain times, a challenge.

When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a good father... hard for me to be a good artist.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

I'm not a big depressive, but I have my moments.

It's a daily struggle for me to stay alive. I don't mean to be melodramatic, hyperbolic, or go into my broadcast mode. But even that, my career is bipolar.

It's always agonising to separate my life as an actress and personal life. Just because I'm happy with my acting life doesn't mean I'm happy with my personal life. I'm always making an effort to balance between the two.

I guess I don't really let the stress of my family weigh on my career, weigh on my options anymore, which I think we all need freedom from.

I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn't have motivation to go on.

I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.

When I admitted to myself I was ill, it was tough to accept. I didn't want my family to worry about me.

The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

Every emotion that I had over the last three years pretty much had to be put on hold.

We can easily get our lives out of balance.

I'm going to have my moody times.