Harbhajan Singh Quotes

I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn't have motivation to go on.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

I don't get ulcers. I give 'em.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.

A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

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.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

Life is stressful.

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.