Robert Harris Quotes

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America.

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

... too emotionally strung out.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

If you make one thing your life and soul - as much as football is my career and main focus - then it turns into a very mentally unstable place to be.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.

Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.

Sometimes, you just feel like you're just surviving for parts of the season.

I was still part of that trend where it was see how low you can get, get as small as you can get, be the biggest guy in your weight class, and it started to burn me out.

I've been working pretty much 12-16 hours a day, six or seven days a week since May of 2003, and every time I see a photo of myself, I realize that there is never a time when I don't look exhausted.

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

I don't control my life; my videos control me. I still love it because it's temporary, but I can't do this forever.

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

I think some of the best pieces of advice for me was when I talked to some of the great players who have had success in this league how much they emphasized the importance of rest, that you can't just go 100 miles an hour all 12 months of the year every day and just keep going. That is a recipe for burnout.

When you play a lot of games in a row, and you come off the pitch thinking, 'I can't do this no more,' then it is time to look at something else, whether you have six months left on your contract or four years.

I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.