Elon Musk Quotes

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

I think I'm prone to panic.

Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

Outside stimulation makes me nervous!

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.

Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

I have anxiety when I'm watching TV.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.