Carlos Mesa Quotes

It's my job, but I think it is too much.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

I was spreading myself too thin. That was making me unhappy and that, in turn, was making the rest of Stone Sour unhappy.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

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 certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

I feel the pressure.

I get stressed out really easily.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

The damned everlasting clatter for offices makes me feel like resigning.

… a job of infinite stress

I started not enjoying myself. It wasn't fun at times. And I always said when that point comes when it's not fun anymore, then I'm done.

I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.