Elizabeth Hurley Quotes

Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.

I really, genuinely don't look at my schedule too often, because when I do, I get a little overwhelmed by how much is going on.

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

I'm a fairly neurotic person.

I keep a really tight schedule.

I often feel like everything is moving so fast that I can barely recount where I was the day before, what I had for breakfast, or how great my workout was.

I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

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

I have schedules that separate everything.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

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.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

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

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

I don't like stress because stress stresses me out.

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.