Henry L. Stimson Quotes

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

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

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

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.

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

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.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

I feel the pressure.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

Compassion Fatigue

Stress is a killer.