Trevor McDonald Quotes

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

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.

Life is stressful.

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

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.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

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

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.

I suffer from everyday life.

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what you wear. People care so much about that these days.