Gianluigi Buffon Quotes

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

At this very moment, I don't feel I will be able to handle what's coming.

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.