Ned Vizzini Quotes

I obsess too much.

When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.

Basically, I have to stop overthinking.

If you didn't relax away from your work, you'd tear your hair out in the middle of the night worrying about the next game when it's only a Monday and you're not playing until Saturday.

I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.

I don't want to take too long a vacation, although I do think I need a break. I start to - whenever I take too long a break or don't work a while, all my demons start to resurface, and I go a little nuts.

When I had a mental breakdown I was 26 and the most important thing before that was my work. And I still adore it. But it was all that mattered and everything else was secondary: my relationship, my family, my own health.

I'm afraid I'm a complete workaholic perfectionist.

I have a brother who is afraid to go to sleep, he dreams he's working.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.

You look confused," said Adrian. I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things." He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it.

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.