Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

When you're doing so much, there's so much on your mind. The bigger the artist you become, you have to think a lot more. I'm trying not to overthink everything!

I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.

In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I think I'm cracking' and just acknowledge it.

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

Once the fifth set comes, it's a matter of nerves.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

To be totally without stress is to be dead.

Worry destroys the ability to write.