Rick Hoffman Quotes

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

Everyone contacts me with the same questions: how can I be more confident? How can I get over my anxiety? And, without being preachy, I do believe that diet is so key.

I am certainly not drama-free in my life, and I used to be a lot more feisty, but I have arrived at a place where I really try to not sweat the small stuff anymore.

'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do... Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can't grow and be better.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.