Julia Michaels Quotes

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

Your nerve coatings are only so thick. When they get worn really thin and frayed, that's when people say things, do things, misbehave.

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.

Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it.

We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we're doing and try not to think about the madness that's surrounding it, and all the hype.

I think too much.

I was struggling, and I was struggling mentally more than anything, and that will carry over to the games.

Stuff used to get me really crazy, touring stuff. I used to hide. I hid from everybody. Back in '87, when things were so hectic, I'd run away. There was so much pressure.

I don't go to Cheltenham. Too busy. It does my head in.

Outside stimulation makes me nervous!

The emotions can take you out of a game.

I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.

I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

Americans of all backgrounds and in all kinds of circumstances are stressed out by feeling overwhelmed and being over-committed.

How can you see that the pressure is getting to me? I think you can see me pull back more from the community around me.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of Templeton, made me into an insane anxious person. I didn't sleep at night. I ended up sleeping all day. In a strange way I felt like the world was going to end. I found myself so deeply depressed at times that I started to read about happiness, and that took me into books about idealism and utopianism. Reading books about people who tried to build utopian societies of different kinds gave me a kind of lift.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

My wits begin to turn.

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

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.