Ryan Garcia Quotes

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

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

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I've really been working on the emotional and internal issues that made me eat in the first place. It's been a real journey.

When I stuff things down and avoid it or try to work too hard through something that needs to be addressed, that's when life slaps me in the face, and I get told. I got told to slow down.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

I don't torture myself.

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

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 try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.

I worked through cancer twice. I probably worked through it too much the last time. This time, I found myself saying, 'Well, I don't feel well. I think I'll take the day off.' I think I did that even a little bit more than I needed to.