John Travolta Quotes

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

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

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

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.

Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for 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.

I mean, if you need a minute to yourself, you aren't going to get it, but you just have to realize it's what you signed up for, because those difficult moments are what make for a much better show.

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

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.

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

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.