Jason Isbell Quotes

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

I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

I don't have the answer to finding the balance because I think, well, maybe successful people don't switch off.

I think it's important to feel good so that the football can take care of itself. If everything else is organised and ready to go, then you're free to play football.

I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.

I'm a successful professional athlete, and whatever I'm going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.

I think it's a loss of energy to be worrying about other people's issues.

I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.

There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

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 want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

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.

It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

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.