Zach LaVine Quotes

There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Luckily I've got family and friends to keep me grounded because there are a lot of negative people around who can suck the energy out of you.

Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can.

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.

In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.

I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.

As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy - and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.

Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn't want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn't want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

Anything negative, I have to let go because it's too toxic for me.

There's always going to be people saying negative and positive things. If you let all that into you, and you're always contemplating that and thinking about that, I'm sure that can get to you. I try not to do that.