Kathy Bates Quotes

Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the third person. That allows me to manage myself better.

I met with my spiritual teacher and went to a therapist. I realized that if I came from a positive place, not only will everyone feel better and I will feel happier, but the company will work better.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

One thing I'd like to do better personally is decompress. Obviously when things don't go your way, you'll be thinking of it all the time.

I realized that therapy helps me explain what I'm feeling better.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.